Quotes About Maturity

Idealizing Daddy is grand when you're five; it's crippling when you're twenty-five or thirty-five. For if you still believe in Daddy's miracles, you may not believe that you can make your own dreams come true. Worse, you may not even be able to formulate them without his guidance

If youth was not wasted, how could it be youth?

El coñac lo mejoraba todo, era el equivalente para los adultos de un beso de tu madre,…».

I'm forty-six years old and I don't care who knows it, but what I will tell you is that when a woman is forty-six and has lived her life the way she's wanted to live it, she knows everything there is to know about what to do in the sack.

One could choose between innocence and experience, but one could not have both.

B]ooks mean something different when return to them later, leavened with age.

What drives a fourteen-year-old to swear a blood oath to a blood brother? And more important, what makes a grown man believe in that oath? Should not the things that count, like ideology and political belief, the ripe fruit of our adulthood, matter more than the unripe ideals and illusions of youth? Let me propose that truth, or some measure of it, can be found in these youthful follies that we forget, to our loss, as adults.

Becoming stupider was a consequence of age for which he was unprepared. With

A man one year elder to you is one cunning year elder to you.

Don't worry about having no master, for time will teach you everything.

Maturity is the ability to discern the ignorant without discussing them.

The age of a man doesn't determine his respect on earth.

The mouth of an old man may smell but the advice coming form it is sweet.

The size of a man is measured by what it takes to upset him.

The world could be a lot better if people correct their own mistakes rather than criticizing others'.

You know your child is growing up when he starts looking at girls the same way he used to look at dessert.

With age, you get to a place where you don't want to knock people out. You just want to give people a hug.

I was the oldest of the children in my family. I had to do a lot of diaper-changing and lunch-making. I was taking my little sister to ballet, picking up my brother, sort of being a super-nanny.

Being male is a matter of birth. Being a man is a matter of age. But being a gentleman is a matter of choice.

Just because a person has been a Christian for many years does not mean that he is spiritually mature. Rather, due to his lack of initiative and negligence, he may need "someone to teach [him] the elementary truths of God's word all over again.

spiritual infants are not able to "distinguish good from evil," and as we have observed, these are identified by the fact that they are still feeding on spiritual milk, or "elementary truths.

It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth.

It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth.

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?