Quotes About Maturity

I love the idea that we put in jokes the kids don't get. And that later, when they grow up and read a few books and go to college and watch the show again, they can get it on a completely different level.

I'm proud that I don't make crazy jokes anymore.

You'll understand me when you're older. Then you'll see how men can blind you. And I mean blind you. To the point that you're no longer yourself.

I am seventeen. The good things about seventeen is that you're not sixteen. Sixteen goes with the word sweet, and I am so far from sweet.

Alonso of Aragon was wont to say in commendation of age, that age appears to be best in four things—old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

A man that is young in years may be old in hours, if he has lost no time.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that traveleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.

Discern of the coming on of years, and think not to do the same things still; for age will not be defied.

Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.

The defects of the understanding, like those of the face, grow worse as we grow old.

Now my innocence begins to weigh me down.

The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.

Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fibre.

Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife - chopping off what's incomplete and saying: 'Now, it's complete because it's ended here.' - from "Collected Sayings of Maud'Dib'' by the Princess Irulan

A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

The longer that I live the more beautiful life becomes.

A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.

The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.

In retrospect, the saddest moment of one's life would seem to be that in which one first became aware that sensibility must be protected by intelligence if it is to survive living. It is that realization that puts the bloodshed into adolescence. And the lack of that realization makes the rest of life a bloodshed.

The downside risk made longer-maturity PERLS especially attractive to sell. Selling a five-year PERLS to a widow or orphan buyer meant you didn't have to worry about the repayment of principal for five years—an entire career on Wall Street—and even then there was a decent chance the buyer would have bet correctly and made money. Not even a widow or an orphan will complain about receiving $200 instead of $100 at maturity.