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Quotes About Maturity

Inteligence lives longer than beauty.
~ Oscar Wilde
Men become old, but they never become good.
~ Oscar Wilde
I wrote when I did not know life; now that I know life, I have no more to say.
~ Oscar Wilde
I suppose one must be serious sometimes.
~ Oscar Wilde
Algy, you always adopt a strictly immoral attitude towards life. You are not quite old enough to do that.
~ Oscar Wilde
A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life.
~ Oscar Wilde
The post on her left was occupied by Mr. Erskine of Treadley, an old gentleman of considerable charm and culture, who had fallen, however, into bad habits of silence, having, as he explained once to Lady Agatha, said everything that he had to say before he was thirty.
~ Oscar Wilde
You have not realized how I have developed. I was a schoolboy when you knew me. I am a man now. I have new passions new thoughts new ideas. I am different but you must not like me less. I am changed but you must always be my friend.
~ Oscar Wilde
Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot: that is all one can say.
~ Oscar Wilde
Wenn ein Mann alt genug ist, um unrecht zu tun, so sollte er alt genug sein, um recht zu tun.
~ Oscar Wilde
They have been through the fire, and what fire does not destroy, it hardens. She has had experiences.
~ Oscar Wilde
Yaln?zca s?? kiÅŸiler bir duygudan kurtulmak için y?llar?n geçmesini beklerler. Kendinin efendisi olan bir insan, nas?l kolayca bir zevk icat edebilirse, ac?s?n? da ayn? kolayl?kla sona erdirebilir.
~ Oscar Wilde
All'inizio i figli amano i genitori; diventando grandi li giudicano; qualche volta li perdonano
~ Oscar Wilde
I wrote when I did not know life. Now that I know life, I have no more to write.
~ Oscar Wilde
Le dramatique de la viellesse ce n'est pas qu'on se fait vieux, c'est qu'on reste jeune.
~ Oscar Wilde
Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them. His
~ Oscar Wilde
Venus is kind to creatures as young as we; We know not what we do, and while we're young We have the right to live and love like gods.
~ Ovid The Metamorphoses Book IX
I am strongly of the opinion that, after the age of twenty-one, a man ought not to be out of bed and awake at four in the morning. The hour breeds thought. At twenty-one, life being all future, it may be examined with impunity. But, at thirty, having become an uncomfortable mixture of future and past, it is a thing to be looked at only when the sun is high and the world full of warmth and optimism.
~ P. G. Wodehouse
Nice dress Zoey. It looks just like mine. Oh, wait! It used to be mine. Aphrodite laughed a throaty, I'm-so-grown-and-you're-just-a-kid laugh. I really hate it when girls do that.I mean, yes, she's older, but I have boobs, too.
~ P.C. Cast
She's way too old to be acting a fool because she has a screwed-up mommy." "Please. Just please with the blame-my-mommy-'cause-I'm-a-bitch crap
~ P.C. Cast
Morrigan Don't worry I'm following my instincts. Birkita Perhaps you could find a way to prudently follow your instincts Morrigan I'm eighteen, nothing I do is prudent
~ P.C. Cast
Perhaps you could find a way to prudently follow your instincts? Morrigan put her arm around Birkita and squeezed. I'm eighteen. Nothing I do is prudent. Birkita sighed. That is what worries me.
~ P.C. Cast
Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
I did not rush in with the vim I would have displayed a year or so earlier, before Life had made me the grim, suspicious man I am to-day:
~ P.G. Wodehouse