Quotes About Maturity

Never build after you are five and forty; have five years' income in hand before you lay a brick; and always calculate the expense at double the estimate.

He wants to be different from everyone else and daydreams of winning the global race, Parents unmarried and living abroad, relatives keen to bag the estate, schizophrenia not excluded, will he learn to grow up before it's too late?

Character building begins in our infancy, and continues until death.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

An adolescent is both an impulsive child and a self-starting adult.

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man I put away childish things.

We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.

Life is the acceptance of responsibilities, or their evasion; it is a business of meeting obligations, or avoiding them.

To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years and to take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser.

Full maturity ... is achieved by realizing that you have choices to make.

Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.

That's the advantage of having lived sixty-five years. You don't feel the need to be impatient any longer.

I believe the sign of maturity is accepting deferred gratification.

No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

When I was young I was sure of everything; in a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I was not half so sure of most things as I was before; at present, I am hardly sure of anything but what God has revealed.

There are more old drunkards than old physicians.

Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year, for it is wrong to add fire to fire.

For him, any wine dated before four o'clock in the afternoon is vintage.

Mistakes and errors are the discipline through which we advance.

Failure is God's own tool for carving some of the finest outlines in the character of his children.

One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

Disappointment is the nurse of wisdom.

Men who look young, act young, and everlastingly harp on the fact that they are young-but who nevertheless think and act with a degree of caution what would be excessive in their grandfathers-are the curses of the world.

A fool's head never whitens.