Quotes About Maturity

Many very strong fathers have turned out ineffectual sons by not allowing them to grow as men.

Experience makes more timid men than it does wise ones.

His coworker was velvety-skinned, a sexy boy-on-the-cusp-of man.

A man cannot become a child again, or he becomes childish.

A man thirty years old, I said to myself, should have his field of life all ploughed, and his planting well done; for after that it is summer time.

What makes a man a man? It's the choices he makes. Not how he starts things but how he finishes them.

The highest culture is not obtained from the teacher when at school or college, so much as by our ever diligent self-education when we become men.

The immature man wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mature man wants to live humanely for one

The child shall become father to the man.

Men don't get smarter when they grow older. They just lose their hair.

There are three things against which the wise man guards: lust when young, quarrels when strong, and covetousness when old.

Happy the man who gains sagacity in youth, but thrice happy he who retains the fervour of youth in age.

Men at forty Learn to close softly The doors to rooms they will not be Coming back to.

I often think when a man's once past a certain age, the older he grows the tougher he gets, and women the same or more so.

Only grown-up men are scared of women.

All men are born equal, but some of them outgrow it.

What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.

Learn everything you can - everything. And then use all that you have learned to grow up too be a wise and good man.

I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating.

There comes a time in a man's life when he hears the call of the sea. If the man has a brain in his head, he will hang up the phone immediately.

Men and women are but children of a larger growth.

It is when their age of passions is past that great men produce their masterpieces, just as it is after volcanic eruptions that the soil is most fertile.

God's grace turns out men and women with a strong family likeness to Jesus Christ, not milksops.

Men and women are most alike at their most mature and soulful levels. Men and women are most different only at their most immature and merely physical levels.