Quotes About Maturity

I have never known a man who was sensual in his youth, who was high-minded when old.

A truly great man never puts away the simplicity of a child.

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.

The mark of a man of the world is absence of pretension.

It is always in season for old men to learn.

Tis said that wrath is the last thing in a man to grow old.

Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. Youthfulness of spirit is the twin brother of optimism... Resist growing up!

I'm a grown man. You know, I've been in a lot of scrapes, but I never felt like I got so - there are probably a lot of things I should have done that I didn't do.

Old men do it better. We're not so sensitive in certain areas.

Wise men, like wine, are best when old; pretty women, like bread, are best when young.

One agonizing journey down the gauntlet of youth is enough for any man.

Men want power in order to do something. Boys want power in order to be something.

A man's worth has its season, like fruit.

The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.

I have never yet heard any middle-aged man or woman who worked with his or her brains express any regret for the passing of youth.

The army teaches boys to think like men.

This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

Fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man.

Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again the loss of all those years.

Boys go to Washington to be somebody...men go to do something.

I was that overachieving, annoying kid who was always trying to win some contest or win the role. I look back on it now and I'm like, "Chill, man." Calm down.

Now that we're men, I changed my underwear.

An old man is twice a child, and so is a drunken man.