Quotes About Maturity

Ideas are like beards; men do not have them until they grow up.

Each of us has a day .. when he has to accept, finally, the fact that he is a man.

The more I study men, the more I realize that they are nothing in the world but boys grown too big to be spankable.

Depend upon it, a man never experiences such pleasure or grief after fourteen years as he does before, unless in some cases, in his first lovemaking, when the sensation is new to him

Men at any age truly never grow up. All, no matter what importance they may have attained, are still no more than little boys.

...if a man comes to his fortieth year, and has any understanding at all, he has virtually seen - thanks to their similarity - all possible happenings, both past and to come.

Boys do what they can; men do what they want

A man's age represents a fine cargo of experiences and memories.

Constable Moore had reached the age when men can subject their bodies to the worst irritations - whisky, cigars, woolen clothes, bagpipes - without feeling a thing or, at least, without letting on.

I had Micah Richards as a player at 16 and he was a man then. What is he now? A bigger man, probably

I want to be a man's man - not a kid actor or a glitzy pop star but a no-bullshit leading man.

Date a woman with children only if you are ready to man up, because it's a position that comes with responsibility.

Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.

Man is a pupil, pain is his teacher.

A world where everything was easy would be a nursery for babies, but not at all a fit place for men.

The man who is deeply discontented with himself is probably growing fast into the full likeness of Christ.

I've arrived at the age where a platonic friendship can be sustained on the highest moral plane.

All men are children, and if you understand that, a woman understands everything.

Men will cease to be fools only when they cease to be men.

At Dartmouth, we make you into a man by allowing you to remain a boy.

A great measure of a man is how he reacts to a midnight awakening when there's no fire or burglar in sight.

Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world.

Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world... Hiro used to feel this way, too, but then he ran into Raven. In a way, this was liberating. He no longer has to worry about being the baddest motherfucker in the world. The position is taken.

Until he reached thirty, Randy felt bad about the fact that he was not socially deft. Now he doesn't give a damn. Pretty soon he'll probably start being proud of it.