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Quotes About Maturity

Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.
~ Henry Adams
As a man passes into middle life, or beyond it, autumn, it has been said, whispers more to his soul than any other season of the natural year. It is not difficult to see why this should be.
~ Henry Parry Liddon
It was childish to feel disappointed, but childishness comes almost as naturally to a man as to a child.
~ Isaac Asimov
Men come of age at sixty, women at fifteen.
~ James Stephens
As a young man, you get to a point in your life where you feel like you have grown up and have to make decisions and not having that father figure in your life to guide you to making those decisions.
~ John Starks
A boy becomes a man when a man is needed
~ John Steinbeck
A boy gets to be a man when a man is needed. Remember this thing. I have known boys forty years old because there was no need for a man.
~ John Steinbeck
Have you ever noticed how many men in the Bible failed in the second half of life? Our enemy is so cunning that he will wait forty or even fifty years to set a trap.
~ Joseph C. Aldrich
It strikes me as weird that a 25 year old man would even find a 16 year old attractive.
~ Joss Stone
-she remembered them kindly, for there was a sweetness in boys that didn't last long, once they became men.
~ Larry McMurtry
I suppose playing an older man is a way of preparing myself for getting older.
~ Leonardo DiCaprio
Nobody loves life like an old man.
~ Sophocles
I have experienced a lot in my life - some good, some bad ­­- but all of those experiences make up the man I am today.
~ Thomas Ravenel
Age will flatten a man.
~ Tommy Lee Jones
Why are men reluctant to become fathers? They aren't through being children.
~ Unknown
If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
A man is sane morally at thirty, rich mentally at forty, wise spiritually at fifty-or never!
~ William Osler
Men are like fine wines - the older they get, the better they get.
~ Charlize Theron
Very often, I don't make it through moments of recording because it is genuinely funny and absolutely ridiculous that a 60-year-old grown man is making these noises.
~ David Ogden Stiers
He exhibits the most extraordinary capacity for middle age that I've ever encountered in a young man of twenty-four.
~ Dennis Price
I find older men more attractive than boys. I need a man who can teach me a thing or two.
~ Donatella Versace
MMA for me was a stepping stone in my life as a man to grow.
~ Enson Inoue
Distinctly different as a child, as an adolescent, in his prime and in his old age, man considers himself as one, not because he acts, but because he knows.
~ Franz Grillparzer
The aim of the college, for the individual student, is to eliminate the need in his life for the college; the task is to help him become a self-educating man.
~ George Horace Lorimer