Quotes About Maturity

When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also.

I was between A man and a boy, A hobble-de-hoy, A fat, little, punchy concern of sixteen.

I was a boy, suddenly treated like the men and expected to act like them.

Young men can be impetuous, young men can be rush, young men can be fools, but the Car'a'carn cannot let himself be a young man.

As a man gets older, if he knows what is good for him,, the women he likes are getting older too. The trouble is that most of them are married.

Those who are born of parents broken with old age, or of such as are not yet ripe or are too young, or of drunkards, soft or effeminate men, want a great and liberal ingenuity or wit.

I like men with some belly who are a little over the hill.

Men must endure Their going hence, even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all.

He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man. He that is more than a youth is not for me, and he that is less than a man, I am not for him.

Some men are called sagacious, merely on account of their avarice; whereas a child can clench its fist the moment it is born.

The oldest man he seemed that ever wore grey hairs.

Old men are always young enough to learn with profit.

He [Winston Churchill] is a man suffering from petrified adolescence.

The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.

I don't go out and get arrested anymore. The most extravagant thing I do these days is play golf. I'm like an old man.

You are inexperienced. So was I, once. So is every man. The measure of a person is not how much they have lived. . . It's in how they make us of what life has shown them.

Well, if I am a man, a man I must become.

Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him.

For men, after a certain age, it gets hard to make new friends.

I definitely don't consider myself a kid anymore. I feel like an old man, an old 28-year-old.

You cannot know a man's life before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad.

Takes more than combat boots to make a man.

By how much one man has more experience of things past, than another, by so much also he is more prudent, and his expectations the seldomer fail him.

Government, religion, property, books, are nothing but the scaffolding to build men. Earth holds up to her master no fruit like the finished man.