Quotes About Maturity

they never tell you when you're younger how much you're going to ache once you get older

A man is measured by the size of things that anger him.

But yet I hadde alwey a coltes tooth.Gat-toothed I was, and that bicam me weel.

Til crowes feet be growen under youre yë.

It seems likely that male choice shaped breasts not to distinguish girls from women, but to distinguish young women from older women. Here, the informative thing about breasts is the way they droop with the effects of age and gravity.

A sure sign of a good book is that you like it more the older you get.

We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.

By common consent grey hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy.

By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory the only object of respect that can never excite envy.

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

Youth is wasted on the young.

Freshman year, kissing and deep French kissing. Then sophomore year, I'd want to be making out with her. By sixteen we should be having oral sex, and by seventeen or eighteen, full frontal sex. Of course, it could go faster than that, but basically, he said, that was the standard progression. Before I finished high school, I should be having full frontal sex with her.

There isn't a thing I can't do now that I didn't do when I was twenty-one...which gives you an idea of how pathetic I was when I was twenty-one. (That's a lie, but I might as well tell you something right here at the beginning of the book. Anytime I can get a laugh I'm not going to let the truth interfere with it.)

There has been foolish talk about audiences having an average twelve-year-old mind: it just isn't true. They are older than anybody, and wiser.

Young men think old men are fools, but old men know young men are fools.

Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never be anything else.

Ought one ever to play at make-believe with a full-grown man for any consideration whatever—even though he be a parson, and a possible father-in-law? There's a case of conscience for you!

As in the inflammations and fevers of physical illness, what looks like trouble may be the very process by which healing takes place. As we become better able to endure life's slings and arrows, our coping mechanisms mature, and vice versa.

The laws of adult development are nowhere near as well known as the laws of the solar system or even the laws of child development, which were only discovered in the last century.

To know how to grow old is the master-work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living"; so wrote Henri Amiel in 1874.

the American people must mature. We are an adolescent lot, expecting solutions to insoluble problems and perfection in our leaders.

In a child's world, it's all about them: how this affects me, how this makes me feel, why is life so unfair? An adult sees a problem and tries to fix it. They think of other people and they plan their actions aware of the consequences. They understand that there will be time to deal with grief and loss after the danger is over.

Having a fling with you doesn't appeal to me. You're handsome, but you're too inexperienced and too arrogant to be good in bed. Having ridden many horses doesn't make you a good rider; it just proves that you can't recognize a good one or don't know how to keep her. You're too young for me, and in ten years, when you improve, I will be too old for you. So let's not speak of this again.

You could've found me. You could've demanded an explanation. Instead your bright idea to deal with this mess was not to talk to me. Do you get off having me chase after you like some sixteen-year-old?" "Twelve tops. Sixteen is giving you too much credit." He bit the air. "Look who's talking.