Quotes About Maturity

He would be laughed at, that should go about to make a fine dancer out of a country hedger, at past fifty. And he will not have much better success, who shall endeavour, at that age, to make a man reason well, or speak handsomely, who has never been used to it, though you should lay before him a collection of all the best precepts of logic or oratory.

Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.

We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stutter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.

Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he's only trying on one face after another till he finds his own.

We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.

She leaned over the bed to plant a goodbye kiss on his cheek. Instead he reached up and cupped her head in his left hand, so that he was in charge of her kiss and it landed oh his lips. It was not, as she would have expected, the fumbling kiss of a boy unused to dating but the practiced kiss of a man who knew exactly what he was doing.

College guys are different. They're looking for quality.

You guys gotta get a license to drive a Geo, but any doofus with a few good swimmers can be a father.

Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste... years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you, as though it were a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just... take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I'm sorry you feel like that and walk away. But that's hard.

Some men just aren't cut out for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they become responsible for a son.

Age is never so old as youth would measure it.

He lacked the wisdom, and the only way for him to get it was to buy it with his youth; and when wisdom was his, youth would have been spent buying it.

Love makes its record in deeper colors as we grow out of childhood into manhood; as the Emperors signed their names in green ink when under age, but when of age, in purple.

We love instinctively, but we love well because we've learned how.

I'm not stupid. I would like to have some businesses that grow so I won't have to be out there on the road when I'm 44.

By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

And yet methinks the older that one grows Inclines us more to laugh than scold, though laughter Leaves us so doubly serious shortly after.

methinks the older that one grows, Inclines us more to laugh the scold, though laughter Leaves us so doubly serious shortly after.

Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him

I have lived to see that being seventeen is no protection against becoming seventy, but to know this needs the experience of a lifetime, for no imagination copes with it.

Many politicians lay it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

Playing the blame game is stupid and childish. Even if it is someone else's fault, the blame game is wasted time, effort, and energy that takes you somewhere that is not going to get you anywhere.