Quotes About Maturity

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

Though age from folly could not give me freedom, It does from childishness

Give me a staff of honor for mine age, / But not a scepter to control the world.

every plan breaks easily, Because the intention is a slave to memory At the moment of birth, it digs itself a grave, Like a fruit, that holds to a branch, while green. And when it matures, it falls itself from the three.

Then he undressed and brushed his teeth. He examined his face in the slightly tarnished looking-glass above the wash-basin. He was fifty-seven, but according to this reflection older. His face would seem younger if he put on a bit of weight; chubbiness could be made to cover a multitude of sins. But he didn't want that; he liked being thought of as beyond things.

Mr Apse was sixty-three now and Miss Bell was forty-five. Mrs Pope was fifty-nine, Tindall forty-three. Plunkett, reckoned in the village to be about fifty, was in fact precisely that.

The less dependent we feel on others to satisfy our needs for happiness, the more mature and truly satisfying our relationships with others are likely to be. The less needy we feel, the less conflict there will be and the easier it will be for us to get to Yes in challenging situations.

Wisdom is oft-times nearer when we stoop Than when we soar.

For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.

A man is about as big as the things that make him angry

Instead this room which had seen her grow to maturity would see her dry up and fade. The gilt mirror in the corner would bear its dispassionate testimony. All these ornaments and furnishings would be her companions through the years to come. And she realised that she would come to hate them, if she didn't already hate them, as one hates the witnesses of one's humiliation and futility.

How old are you?" "Thirteen…sur." It was the first time she had sirred him. He might have known that these undersized, half-starved waifs were always older than they looked.

But when his mother died, even while he was crying, something within him had risen up, a barrier to shield off his weakness and tenderness and frailty. He had thought, All right, then, I've lost her and I'm alone. All right then. The adult impulse followed the childish.

I've gotten more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

When you're 20 you care what everyone thinks. When you're 40 you stop caring what everyone thinks. When you're 60 you realize no one was ever thinking about you in the first place.

Anyone who was not a liberal at 20 years of age had no heart, while anyone who was still a liberal at 40 had no head.

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me

There is nothing that the mature hate more, there is nothing that disgusts them more, than immaturity

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But perhaps I took the serious-minded too seriously and overestimated the maturity of the mature.

Có? wy wiecie o triumfie, który pozwala rozkoszowa? siÄ™ wÅ'asnÄ… niedojrzaÅ'oÅ›ciÄ… i jest jednoczeÅ›nie jej wyswobodzeniem i przezwyci??eniem?

I wished, first of all, to buy my way into people's good graces with my book so that, in subsequent personal contact, I would find the ground already prepared, and, I reasoned, if I succeeded in implanting in their soules a favorable image of me, this image would in turn shape me; and so, willy-nilly, I would become mature.

What annoys me most is that these stupid Frenchmen think I am still just seven years old - because that was my age when they first saw me - (...) they treat me here like a beginner - except the musicians; they know better.