Quotes About Maturity

Bring a wife home to your house when you are of the right age, not far short of 30 years, nor much above this is the right time for marriage.

But Jeanie had just gone through the motions. No one would have realized, except perhaps her too-perceptive son-in-law, but that was one of the few perks of maturity: you knew how to dissemble.

But who would hold up his head, if people judged us by what we were like at twenty?" 398

If you knew at twenty what you know at thirty-five, what a marvellous life you could have; on the other hand, you might find that you couldn't be bothered to have any life at all.

In his student days he was known for a sharp slanderous tongue, for irreverance to his seniors, for drinking and gaming for high stakes. But who would hold up his head, if people judged us by what we were like at twenty?

But who would hold up his head, if people judged us by what we were like at twenty?

The year now is 1774. Poseurs or not, it is time to grow up. It is time to enter the public realm, the world of public acts and public attitudes. Everything that happens now will happen in the light of history. It is not a midday luminary, but a corpse-candle to the intellect; at best, it is a secondhand lunar light, error-breeding, sand-blind and parched.

It was just that I was unsuited to being a child.

I used to think that fifteen would be nearly grown up," said her sister Naomi, "until you started being it

Who does not grow, declines.

True nobility is in being superior to your previous self.

This story is the tale of me starting to walk. Not in the physical sense… but in an adolescence to adulthood sort of way…

Livet är inrättat för de gamla, därför är det en olycka att vara ung. Det är inrättat för de tanklösa och slöa, för dem som ta falskt för äkta eller till och med föredrar det falska, därför är det en sjukdom att tänka och känna, en barnsjukdom som man måste gå igenom innan man blir man...

Mr. Schoenbrun, we have a secret weapon ... don't smile when I tell you this. Our secret weapon is nationalism. To have nationhood, which is a sign of maturity, is greater than any weapons in the world.

No man is ever old enough to know better.

He wondered whether growing up was learning that most stories turned out to be lies.

I'm no longer a child, and I don't need comfort.

You can't play pretend forever.

An unhappy childhood is supposed to make you grow up fast, but I still feel like a kid a lot of the time.

A medida que nos hacemos mayores, las cosas van cambiando. Y por mucho que anhele ese cambio, también me da miedo.

I'm no longer a child, and I don't need comfort.

in time-out. That's how you're acting—like five-year-olds. It's time you realized that you are sixteen and way too old for this nonsense. And you

and she reflected that thirty-five was a lot harder than twenty-five had been. She was pretty sure she was getting smarter, but she figured she was falling apart at the same rate. By the time she was seventy, she ought to be both brilliant and too decrepit to make any use of her hard-won knowledge.

You ought not to practice childish ways, since you are no longer that age.