Quotes About Maturity

The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or the will to enforce significant change.

Universities can teach maturity. They can teach teenagers how to be adults, and that means to function outside a clique or a tribe.

A couple of people I knew went to university apart from me, but all the way through I was the smartest kid in the school. That's luck, but I was proud of it. And I was also proud of doing well without trying. As you get older, and it took me a long time to realise it, that's a disgusting attitude, revolting.

Everybody has an inferiority complex when they step into a room. But then when you have children and you get older, it doesn't really matter. When I was young I had so many inferiority complexes. I had an inferiority complex because I didn't go to university. I had an inferiority complex because I didn't train.

People don't really know themselves until they're 30. Like most people nowadays, I went to university, got a degree and wandered for a bit. I trained to be a chartered accountant, which I didn't much enjoy, and it was only slowly that the idea of becoming a creative writer gelled.

I was too much of an innocent when I went to university.

I do a job I really, really love and I kind of have fun with. People think you can't be grown up unless you're moaning about your job.

Age is of no importance unless you are a cheese.

Part of being an adult is treating women like women.

Adulthood was invented to repair the wounds of childhood.

The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.

I'm not big on women looking naive.

I was the youngest kid. When I was five, my sisters were 17, 19, and 21, already becoming women. I would see how different they would be around one another and around men, even my father.

Older people exude bundles of sexuality. Older men and women tend not run around like cats and dogs in heat.

It's kind of like family. I can't say that we go out to lunch and to the movies every day with each other. Everyone's fully grown adult women with lives.

Not many people do at the age of 21 or younger even, know how to act nor could be concerned with anything other than fighting, women and money.

At the heart of mature masculinity is a sense of benevolent responsibility to lead, provide for, and protect women in ways appropriate to man's differing relationships.

People who are angry at themselves sometimes blame others. It's a sign of immaturity.

We older women who know we aren't heroines can offer our younger sisters, at the very least, an honest report of what we have learned and how we have grown.

The older you are, the more you have to offer. Life begins at 40 and it just gets better and better.

Women are the right age for just a few years; men, for most of their lives.

It's Faster horses, Younger women, Older whiskey and More money.

When I passed forty I dropped pretense, 'cause men like women who got some sense.

The great thing about being 30 is that there are a great deal more available women. The young ones look younger and the old ones don't look nearly as old.