Quotes About Maturity

closer she got to forty, the more annoyed she was by people in their twenties.

Sweet sixteen, Hugh said, kissing her affectionately. Happy birthday, little bear. Your future's all ahead of you. Ursula still harbored the feeling that some of her future was also behind her but she had learned not to voice such things.

She was twenty-eight but already jaded. Twenty-eight seemed a particularly unsatisfactory age. She was no longer young and yet no one ever seemed to take her seriously as an adult. People still told her what to do all the time, it was infuriating. Her only power seemed to be over her own children and even that was limited by endless negotiation.

Boys took a long time to become men but daughters were women from the kickoff.

He could hardly beat them up, they were still – technically – children and he preferred to restrict his acts of violence to people old enough to fight for their country.

Boys must not have th' ambitious care of men, Nor men the weak anxieties of age.

No man under forty can be dignified with the title of gourmet.

Age childish makes, they say, but 'tis not true; We're only genuine children still in Age's season. [Ger., Das Alter macht nicht kindisch, wie man spricht, Es findet uns nur noch als wahre Kinder.]

Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it. No man hath affliction enough that is not matured and ripened by it and made fit for God.

Men are but children of a larger growth.

He drank his first strong liquor then to calm his shaking hand, and tried to tell himself at last he had become a man.

Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.

Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom.

I also said, men are like curling irons, they never get out of your hair. And they are like government bonds, they take so long to mature.

A lot of boys will let me down but a real man wouldn't do it like that.

When a man of forty falls in love with a girl of twenty, it isn't her youth he is seeking but his own.

A man's clarity of judgment is never very good when you're involved, and as you grow older, and as you grow more involved, your clarity of judgement suffers.

That which is usually called dotage is not the weak point of all old men, but only of such as are distinguished by their levity.

It is not so important whether a young man has been through the experience of a mission as it is whether the mission experience has been through him.

I'm happy to be on a show that's bridging that gap of 'Okay, I'm not a teenager anymore, I'm a man.'

How many really capable men are children more than once during the day!

I used to write things that might have sounded better coming out of an older person's voice or vision. Hence, "grandpa-boy." I'm an old man, but I'm a boy. A really old boy!

I believe that school makes complete fools of our young men, because they see and hear nothing of ordinary life there.

I have heard that Tiberius used to say that that man was ridiculous, who after sixth years, appealed to a physician.