Quotes About Maturity

Men, in general, are but great great children.

Real maturity is the ability to imagine the humanity of every person as fully as you believe in your own humanity.

A mark of maturity seems to be the range and extent of one's feeling of self-involvement in abstract ideals.

The mark of a mature man is the ability to give love and receive it joyously and without guilt.

I believe that the sign of maturity is accepting deferred gratification.

Grow up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.

It is unjust to claim the privileges of age and retain the playthings of childhood.

At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty, nothing at all.

No great thing is created suddenly.

Time is the wisest counsellor of all.

Happiness is ... usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

I look forward to growing old and wise and audacious.

We all lose our looks eventually, better develop your character and interest in life.

The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.

It is quite wrong to think of old age as a downward slope. On the contrary, one climbs higher and higher with the advancing years, and that, too, with surprising strides.

I look forward to being older, when what you look like becomes less and less an issue and what you are is the i point.

Frankly, I like the fact that I no longer fit the young beauty type-people take me more seriously now.

A Jewish man with parents alive is a 15-year-old boy, and will remain a 15-year-old boy until they die.

Our sons, who so easily recognize our errors, and rightly denounce them, will have to confess their own, later on, and they may be as bad as ours, perhaps worse.

A finished person is a boring person.

Every man over forty is responsible for his face.

The greatest and most important problems of life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved, but only outgrown.