Quotes About Maturity

You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty.

To age with dignity and with courage cuts close to what it is to be a man.

Age doesn't make a man.

We all know we're going to die; what's important is the kind of men and women we are in the face of this.

Great men are but common men more fully developed and ripened.

How hard it is, how bitter it is to become a man!

Maturity is the slowness in which a man believes.

A lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they've seen everything.

They say that children become men, and men become children. Many generations have grown up, become men, and gone hence.

Men always marry younger girls, but sometimes when a women who's very mature marries a younger man, she's criticized. It needs to be corrected.

"You're a bitter man," said Candide. "That's because I've lived," said Martin.

I pass the test that says a man who isn't a socialist at 20 has no heart, and a man who is a socialist at 40 has no head.

A young man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see how they are getting on.

Any man who is not a communist at the age of 20 is a fool.

The man who has lived the longest is not he who has spent the greatest number of years, but he who has had the greatest sensibility of life.

The end of education is to see men made whole, both in competence and in conscience.

Every year there's a few more things I'm not sure of. I've decided that a wide-ranging uncertainty is the mark of the true maturity of man.

There are three things which the superior man guards against. In youth ... lust. When he is strong ... quarrelsomeness. When he is old ... covetousness.

A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.

The best years of a man's life are after he is forty. A man at forty has ceased to hunt the moon.

At sixty a man has passed most of the reefs and whirlpools....That man has awakened to a new youth....Ergo, he is young.

After 40, a man is responsible for his face.

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

A man has more character in his face at forty than at twenty - he has suffered longer.