Quotes About Maturity

With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.

Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything. Yes, murmured Lord Henry, settling his button-hole in his coat; and when they grow older they know it.

We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.

When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also.

My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.

Men know life too early. Women know life too late. That is the difference between men and women.

I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.

Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot.

When I was young I thought money was the most important thing in life, now that I'm old - I know it is!

Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development.

At fifteen I set my heart upon learning. At thirty, I had planted my feet firm upon the ground. At forty, I no longer suffered from perplexities. At fifty, I knew what were the biddings of Heaven. At sixty, I heard them with docile ear. At seventy, I could follow the dictates of my own heart; for what I desired no longer overstepped the boundaries of right.

At fifteen my mind was directed to study, and at thirty I knew where to stand.

You are not yet able to serve men, how can you serve spirits?

Give me a few more years so that I am studying at fifty, and surely I may avoid major errors.

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An intelligent lady, a little too mature for recklessness, a little too young for caution.

At best she's a scrawny, hollow-eyed croneling." "Croneling?" John tilted his head in perplexity. "Croneling. Noun. One who has yet to achieve cronehood. The adolescent phase of the British crone," Avery lectured.

also want to deal with what emotional maturity really entails, and everything else about your emotions you should have learned when

In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments.

he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to start at all

At what age in a child's life does rage become sorrow?

When you're a kid you have these notions about how things are going to be.... You get a little older and you pull back on some of that. I think you wind up just tryin to minimize the pain.

Nineteen is old enough to know that if you have got somethin that means the world to you it's all that more likely it'll get took away. Sixteen was, for that matter.

Too soon old and too late smart. You dont know anything till it gets here. You told me once that maybe the end of the road has nothing to do with the road. Maybe it doesnt even know there's been a road. You ready?