Quotes About Maturity

No one becomes forty without incredulity and a sense of outrage.

Learning is a continuous process. There is no growth without learning.

A rewarding life is aging without hatred or envy.

The philosophy of life started on the day you gained wisdom, not on the day you were born.

My son is 7 years old. I am 54. It has taken me a great many years to reach that age. I am more respected in the community, I am stronger, I am more intelligent and I think I am better than he is. I don't want to be a pal, I want to be a father.

The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your fife, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there's nothing really to talk about.

I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.

You know when you're young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they're trying to be old men and they have no idea what that's like? It's just that stupid the other way around.

Finally you get to the age when a book's power to make you think becomes the first thing you notice about it.

The childish urge to understand everything doesn't necessarily fade when the time approaches for you to do the most adult thing of all: vanish.

A woman has the age she deserves.

You can be gorgeous at thirty, charmimg at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.

You can be gorgeous at thirty, charming at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.

Little by little a person reaches forty and fifty and sixty, and feels more complete. God could've thrown full blown prophets flying through the cosmos in an instant.

At our age," she said, "you go for the small things and you do them as well as you can.

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

[D]on't grow old. With age comes caution, which is another name for cowardice.... Whatever else you do in life, don't cultivate a conscience. Without a conscience a man may never be said to grow old. This is an age of very old young men.

You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

All wars are boyish, and are fought by boys.

So I have gone all the way around Robin Hood's barn to arrive at the old platitudes, which I guess is the process of growing up.

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