Quotes About Maturity

A man must have vices, expensive ones if possible. Otherwise when he reaches old age he will have nothing to be redeemed from.

I've been out with men who have literally had an argument with the mirror because they couldn't get their hair right. When I was younger, I might have reassured him, but I can't do that anymore.

We Latins make splendid lovers and splendid older men.

It well becomes a man who is no longer young to forget that he ever was.

A man who says, 'I was wrong,' really in effect says, 'I am a little wiser today than I was yesterday.

I'm interested in youth culture - when your parents are running your life, but you think you're the big man - but I'm not trying to make a statement.

When I was 16, the pot weeded out the men from the boys, there were the heads and the straights. Now it's almost like money can weed it out, you know?

It is the individual man in his individual freedom who can mature with his warm spirit the unripe world.

I always tell people that I was fortunate I was able to come in with a group of men. We didn't come into the game with a group of boys. We were young then. So your cats keep you in check.

A friend often says I'm an old man in a young man's husk. I like that. I am old-fashioned in some ways.

In judgement be ye not too confident, Even as a man who will appraise his corn When standing in a field, ere it is ripe.

Often I think boys don't become men. Boys just get papier-mâchéd inside a man's mask. Sometimes you can tell the boy is still in there.

A real man is capable of controlling himself before he controls his children.

A man of over thirty might be held to be at the height of his powers, but not necessarily of his wisdom.

Grown men, he told himself, in flat contradiction of centuries of accumulated evidence about the way grown men behave, do not behave like this.

You got to stand up and be a man. You can't just keep running off.

I am a man who has never tied his own shoes before!

I was a man by middle school.

A woman, no matter the age, is always learning, always becoming. But a man . . . stops learning at fourteen or so.

Youth is the period of harsh judgments, and a man seldom learns until he reaches thirty that human nature is made up not of simples, but of compounds.

It's taken me to be an older guy, an old man, to have an old man's voice. Because I only liked old men's voices. As a kid, I didn't like pip-squeaked singers.

I told my parents, 'You've taken care of me all my life, helped me through college. You've been awesome, but now it's my turn to be my own man.'

There is a perfect ant, a perfect bee, but man is perpetually unfinished...Moreover, the incurable unfinishedness keeps man perpetually immature, perpetually capable of learning and growing.

As I've gotten older I look like a man, finally.