Quotes About Maturity

I'm still learning, you know. At 80, I feel there is a lot I don't know.

My mother gave lots of good advice and had a lot to say. As you get older, you realize everything she said was true.

When a man of forty falls in love with a girl of twenty, it isn't her youth he is seeking but his own.

Of course, if adolescents are ready to take on the world—and make babies and sustain the species—it's no surprise they're surly and awful to be around when we treat them like little children today. The disconnect between "I'm grown up!" and "You're grounded" is just too great. One study found that the peak year for depression among American women is eighteen. They're ready to start out but can't get started.

Relish love in our old age! Aged love is like aged wine; it becomes more satisfying, more refreshing, more valuable, more appreciated and more intoxicating!

Relish love in your old age! Aged love is like aged wine; it becomes more satisfying, more refreshing, more valuable, more appreciated and more intoxicating!

Most men do not mature, they simply grow taller.

Here's my advice to you: don't marry until you can tell yourself that you've done all you could, and until you've stopped loving the women you've chosen, until you see her clearly, otherwise you'll be cruelly and irremediably mistaken. Marry when you're old and good for nothing...Otherwise all that's good and lofty in you will be lost.

Never, never marry, my friend. Here's my advice to you: don't marry until you can tell yourself that you've done all you could, and until you've stopped loving the woman you've chosen, until you see her clearly, otherwise you'll be cruelly and irremediably mistaken. Marry when you're old and good for nothing…Otherwise all that's good and lofty in you will be lost.

How strange it is that when I was a child I tried to be like a grownup, yet as soon as I ceased to be a child I often longed to be like one.

Life experience?" I repeated tightly. "Big picture? I've had more life experience in fourteen years than you've had in — what are you, like, a hundred?

When the store emptied, Frank gasped. "Goodness! You kids have to stop eating! If you're not careful, you're going to turn into grown-ups. We don't want that, do we?

Why should you expect everything to work out successful? You're old enough to know better.

He had never been particularly young, or to put it another way, he had been young for a long time and now was at his true age, old enough for civilized comfrots and not too old for the primal ones.

She's not young, but rather in the midst of that last and most confident beauty, like the mother of a schoolmate. You see her emerging from a car, the flash of an elegant calf, and you are tumbled into unbearable love.

Janey had accepted the responsibilities of adulthood, and people like that didn't run off on a moment's notice.

Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man.

Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.

With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

I trust that this collection of pieces will prove that I ave not become, at sixty six going on fifty, as one friend of mine gallantly put it, completely lugubrious.

The older you get, the more theories you make up about things.

She was mature enough to know the difference between endorphin-fueled young love and the type that developed like fine wine over time.

Out of mistakes grows wisdom.

He was not yet old enough to be able to grade his own misfortunes: it is one of the maturer accomplishments.