Quotes About Maturity

As I've gotten older, I've found that I can have men as friends. I used to not be able to.

A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.

It's my job to try to communicate with as little showiness as possible. I was a really showy actor as a young man.

I'd always felt a man should marry later in life.

Immature is the love of the youth, and immature his hatred of man and earth. His mind and the wings of his spirit are still tied down and heavy.

When a man reaches his maturity in understanding and in years, the feeling comes over him that his father was wrong to beget him.

You are a man still young, so to say, in your first youth and so put intellect above everything.

The difficult task of knowing another soul is not for young gentlemen whose consciousness is chiefly made up of their own wishes.

Hee wrongs not an old man that steales his supper from him.

He (God) can be revealed only to the child; perfectly, to the pure child only. All the discipline of the world is to make men children, that God may be revealed to them.

What is the use of being a little boy if you are growing up to be a man.

I'm at a point in my life where I have three kids. I'm a father, and you start to take stock and measure yourself as a man and see where there's room for growth.

In the lives of children, pumpkins turn into coaches, mice and rats turn into men. When we grow up, we realize it is far more common for men to turn into rats.

When she was fifteen if you'd told her that when she was twenty she'd be going to bed with bald-headed men and liking it, she would have thought you very abstract.

The world is full of guys. Be a man. Don't be a guy

The age, you know. A man can be wiser and wiser, and a woman is older and older.

Some men just aren't cut out for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they become responsible for a son.

Ruby Gillis thinks of nothing but young men, and the older she gets the worse she is. Young men are all very well in their place, but it doesn't do to drag them into everything, does it?

Well, we are men. Let's start acting like it.

That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself.

A man who means to think and write a great deal must, after six and twenty, learn to read with his fingers.

King Solomon, who supposedly was the wisest of all men, described his youth as his winter and his advanced years as his summer. We can be older than we used to be yet feel much younger than we are.

I think you need to have lived more to truly know a man's heart. You need to have made more transactions in life to know the worth of the coin you spend so freely

When a man stands on the verge of seventy-two you know perfectly well that he never reached that place without knowing what this life is - heartbreaking bereavement.