Quotes About Maturity

The only difference between men and boys is the cost of their toys.

At 50 a man can be an ass without being an optimist but not an optimist without being an ass.

We are so attuned to rhythms, to night and day, to fall, winter, spring and summer, year in and year out; to childhood, maturity, and old age; to the very beat of our hearts. Women, in particular, feel the ebb and flow of vigor every month of their reproductive years.

You know you are getting old when it takes too much effort to procrastinate.

Proverbs bear age and he who should do well may view himself in them as in a looking-glass.

A man is getting old w'en he walks around a puddle instead of through it.

Instead of being born again, why not just grow up?

Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.

For certain people after 50, litigation takes the place of sex.

For certain people after fifty, litigation takes the place of sex.

Jugend hat keine Tugend

The Sayings of Confucius: "At fifteen I thought only of study; at thirty I began playing my role; at forty I was sure of myself; at fifty I was conscious of my position in the universe; at sixty I was no longer argumentative; and now at seventy I can follow my heart's desire without violating custom."1

Just coming out of your mother's womb does not make you a human being. - Just getting old doesn't make you wise.

Like some wines our love could neither mature nor travel.

Twelve!!! Twelve years old!!? When you lost your virginity, you were twelve???' 'Yeah.' 'Twelve??' Rimmer stared into the fire. 'Well, you can't have been a full member of the golf club, then.

At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths-your abilities and your failings.

Gray hair is a sign of age, not wisdom.

He doesn't have to love your CD collection. He doesn't have to love your shoes. But any good, mature guy better make an attempt to love your friends and family—especially when they're great.

If I'd said that to my sensible, smutty, twelve-year-old self, he would have laughed until he hemorrhaged

hey be ur own heck of a person, and dont copy what other people do or say. cause then it just makes u look really bad, then that person who u copyied will get mad at u. so grow up a little

Leroy Eims a generation ago asked, "What then is the problem today? Why don't we see more of this [disciple making] going one? Why are fruitful, dedicated mature disciples so rare? The biggest reason is that all too often we have relied on programs or materials or some other thing to do the job. The ministry is carried on by people, not programs.

Every time I consider myself an adult, I think back five years to when I also thought of myself as an adult. An I'm aghast at how staggeringly blind I was. Maybe what I hold to be true right now will seem just as ignorant when I reflect back on it years from now.

Maturity is graduating from the belief that the world misunderstands you to the awareness that you misunderstand the world.

Maybe that's all growing up is. Knowing in real time that you don't know anything.