Quotes About Maturity

The child's toys and the old man's reasons are the fruits of two seasons.

I long for the day when advertising will become a business for a grown man.

A woman should never underestimate the power of the child in the man. Sometimes the child seems to be in the driver's seat at the very moment when all a man's adult judgment and insight is needed.

Lots of women love to accuse men of being immature when the fellow in question displays a reluctance to "commit"...

I love the whole makeup of men - that they never mature and are always just boys.

I think all men when they get older, they look at the mirror and they probably see their father a little bit.

James Agate, a great critic of the day, advised me that the way to learn your job properly was to learn Shakespeare, so I went to Stratford. It really sorts out the men from the boys.

By the age of forty, a man is responsible for his face. And his fate.

In infants, levity is a prettiness; in men a shameful defect; but in old age, a monstrous folly.

It is my conviction that no normal man ever fell in love, within the ordinary meaning of the term, after the age of thirty.

Until he is forty, a man is too young to marry; and after he is forty, he is too old.

Man reaches each stage of his life as a novice.

Men are like wine,--not good before the lees of clownishness be settled.

Men don't mature. Marry a younger one.

Passion is a young man's game. Young people can be passionate. Older people gotta be more wise.

Mister, I ain't a boy, no I'm a man, and i believe in a promised land.

Women encourage men to be childish, then scold them.

In a man, I like funny guys. A guy who doesn't have a lot of therapy, who's mature. A man, not a boy.

A man must always study, but he must not always go to school: what a contemptible thing is an old abecedarian!

Men grow old quickly on the battlefield.

Adulthood does not exist. Man is an eternal child.

Midnight passes and I'm twenty-five days and a million years from becoming a man.

Don't throw me teddy-bears, I'm 23! I'm a man! Throw me condoms or money! Paper, not coins.

It is with men as with other things. The mullein needs only a year, but the oak a century, and the greatest men are those who have continued to grow as long as they have lived.