Quotes About Maturity

The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.

If a man can reach the latter days of his life with his soul intact, he has mastered life.

A boy can be two, three, four potential people, but a man is only one. He murders the others.

Simultaneously I am myself, the child I was, the old man I will be.

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A widow is a fascinating being with the flavor of maturity, the spice of experience, the piquancy of novelty, the tang of practiced coquetry, and the halo of one man's approval.

At twenty, a man feels awfully aged and blasé; at thirty, almost senile; at forty, "not so old"; and at fifty, positively skittish.

Happy is the man who can brush aside the offending remarks of another and go on his way.

A really good style comes only when a man has become as good as he can be. Style is character. A good style cannot come from a bad undisciplined character.

As men get older, the toys get more expensive.

Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.

Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.

The worst thing that can happen to a man is to succeed before he is ready.

One thing that prevents a man from being a good father is he hasn't completed being a boy.

I prefer men to boys. To clear it up, it's not about an older or younger thing. It's a mindset, not age. There are 18-year-old men out there and there are 40-year-old boys.

I grew up and still didn't know what it meant to be a man.

We can't reach old age by another man's road.

I'd rather be a boy playing with a paper plane, than to be a grown man playing with a woman's heart.

No man loves life like him that's growing old.

Men aren't men until they can get to Sears by themselves.

A man must first govern himself ere he is fit to govern a family; and his family ere he be fit to bear the government of the commonwealth.

A bad workman quarrels with the man who calls him that.

To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible.

If you can feel like a good man in your 40s, you can feel like a better man in your 50s, a Superman in your 60s, and maybe a Spider-Man in your 70s.