Quotes About Maturity

Age 45. — At sixteen I was stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self-confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I am stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. Who would have supposed that maturity is only a short break in adolescence?

Age 48. — I am forty-eight years old, it is time for my life to begin.

Age 49. — A man's physical prime is between the ages of thirty and thirty-five; the prime time for his soul and capacity for thought is around forty-nine.

Age 50. — At 50 a man can be an ass without being an optimist but not an optimist without being an ass.

Late 50s. — ...on the shady side of fifty...

Age 59. — With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and a definite hardening of the paragraphs.

Age 62¾. — At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans. I've no lack of them. I plan to live a little longer yet, to continue to suffer in honourable fashion, that is without complaint or rancour...

The Child is father of the Man...

A woman is like mahogany — the older she is, the better she is.

What is Imagination but mental mischief of a kind, and why can't the youngster protectively occupy himself with invention of that sort before maturity works him over?

Sit up, and no whining. I don't whine. Rarely, he agreed. But when you do, you make up for the lack of quantity with quality.

But he cannot see a connection between the end of yearning and the end of poetry. Is that what growing up amounts to: growing out of yearning, of passion, of all intensities of the soul?

I don't like wine,' says Davíd. 'It's sour.' 'Wine is an acquired taste. When we are young we don't like it, then when we are older we acquire a taste for it.' 'I am never going to acquire a taste for it.' 'That's what you say. Let's wait and see.' Having

Technically he is old enough to be her father; but then, technically one can be a father at twelve.

No, I have not sought counselling nor do I intend to seek it. I am a grown man. I am not receptive to being counselled. I am beyond the reach of counselling.

Significa que está madurando? ¿En eso se resume madurar: superar los anhelos, la pasión, todas las intensidades del alma?

Decía que finges ser un ciudadano respetable y un hombre racional, pero en realidad no eres más que un niño perdido. Así lo decía textualmente: un niño que no sabe dónde vive ni qué quiere.

Decía que finges ser un ciudadano respetable y un hombre racional, pero en realidad no eres más que un niño perdido. Así lo decía textualmente: un niño que no sabe dónde vive ni qué quiere. Una

Una aventura? ¿Iba en serio? - ¿Qué más dará que fuera en serio? Pasada cierta edad, todas las aventuras van en serio. Igual que los ataques cardíacos.

this life is the incubation period!

I don't think my sister is old enough to have sex." "V, she's the same age you are." He frowned for a moment. Was she? Or had he been born first?

God, he was probably too young to be this old, but life had a way of being about experience, rather than calendar days.

Put on your big girl pants and deal.

Cursing herself, she said, I'm going to man up here. I'm going to so be twenty-one. You're not going to believe how tight in the head I'm going to be. Really. For real.