Quotes About Maturity

When you're eighteen your emotions are violent, but they're not durable.

When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back.

Age does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles.

One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.

Middle age, my boy. No memory at all.

Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.

I started super young, but when I think about myself at that age - what I thought I knew, and how priggish I was, how certain of things - now I realize that nothing is certain.

Age gives you a great sense of proportion. You can be very hard on yourself when you're younger but now I just think 'well everybody's absolutely mad and I'm doing quite well'.

Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years.

Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age

I had a very rough childhood and not a happy one and by age 15 I was an old person in many ways. I knew that I had to take care of myself, I um and I always did.

Age has extremely little to do with anything that matters. The difference between one age and another is, as a rule, enormously exaggerated.

The best thing about being 55 is that I know enough now to know what I want and what I don't want-and what I want is to have fun.

I always looked really young for my age. And once I hit 23, 24 and 25, I was then allowed to play the cool 18-year-olds and stuff.

They should raise the alcohol age to 60, so at least you'd have something to look forward to at this point.

I am just turning 40 and taking my time about it.

Young men think old men are fools, but old men know young men are fools.

Sometimes grown ups don't act their right old age

The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth.

There's no law that decrees when not to whinge, but you reach a certain age - 80 seems about right - when you're expected to manifest querulousness - the coffee's too hot, the boiled egg's too soft.

The sort of liveliness which increases with age is not far distant from madness.

What have I got better than anyone? Age.

Seventeen's not a good age. That's when you realize that you have a heart. That's when feelings get in the way of thinking.

It's frightfully important for a writer to be his age, not to be younger or older than he is. One might ask, "What should I write at the age of sixty-four," but never, "What should I write in 1940."