Quotes About Maturity

Penso che da giovani si combatte per sconfiggere i peccati capitali senza sapere che nell'età adulta non saranno le virtù a neutralizzarli, bensì i peccati stessi. Per esempio, a lungo andare la gola prende il sopravvento sulla vanità e l'ignavia sulla lussuria.

Nothing important comes into being overnight; even grapes or figs need time to ripen. If you say that you want a fig now, I will tell you to be patient. First, you must allow the tree to flower, then put forth fruit; then you have to wait until the fruit is ripe. So if the fruit of a fig tree is not brought to maturity instantly or in an hour, how do you expect the human mind to come to fruition, so quickly and easily?

The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

And if the liberal media and political community cannot accept that sometimes the wrong people get killed in war, then I can only suggest they first grow up and then serve a short stint up in the Hindu Kush.

Now sit down and shut up, you autocratic frat boy. It's adult swim.

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

Rashness belongs to youth prudence to old age.

Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.

Not to know the events which happened before one was born, that is to remain always a boy.

The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.

When you're young, you think everything you do is disposable. You move from now to now, crumpling time up in your hands, tossing it away. You're your own speeding car. You think you can get rid of things, and people too--leave them behind. You don't yet know about the habit they have, of coming back.

We thought we were running away from the grown-ups, and now we're the grown-ups.

Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

When we are young we love our idealization of people, I suppose, and only as we grow older do we love them as they really are.

Comedy was the key to everything. I grew up fast and controlled my future by bringing it on faster than it naturally unfolded. I cheated myself out of a childhood but then got a running headstart into adulthood that no one else could keep up with.

Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.

Well, you're young. You know a whole lot you won't know later on." ~ Christie Logan

Rosebuds might be sweet, but one need never be so careful of the rose in full bloom.

It's only when you grow up and step back from him–or leave him for your own home–it's only then that you can measure his greatness and fully appreciate it.

As people grow up, they teach themselves to do what distinguishes adults from children: they will choke and cough until they have mastered the cigarette, or force themselves to down bitter beer until they are ready to join the group that actually likes it.

Finally something besides infatuation had focused him. He was no longer merely flowing water.

With her heels kicking the stone's side high above the ground, Branza was a girl again, though she was full-grown long ago; though the years had accumulated behind her in their great pointless pile.

Love is never easy or guaranteed. Real love is a leap, you know. As you get older, you learn how hard it is, how hard everything is, how we never know if there's ground beneath our feet, or if we'll be hurt or heartbroken. But we leap anyway. You have to take that leap.