Quotes About Maturity

Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.

Age is¦wisdom, if one has lived one's life properly.

As you know, no one over thirty years of age is afraid of tittle-tattle. I myself find it much less difficult to strangle a man than to fear him.

I'm very mature for my age, but I'm also innocent in a lot of ways.

Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.

In youth one has tears without grief; in age, griefs without tears.

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility; therefore, my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but k.

Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.

Middle Age - Later than you think and sooner than you expect.

Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.

A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.

I venerate old age; and I love not the man who can look without emotion upon the sunset of life, when the dusk of evening begins to gather over the watery eye, and the shadows of twilight grow broader and deeper upon the understanding.

In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom; but he who reflects not, never reaps; has no harvest from it, but carries the burden of age without the wages of experience; nor knows himself old, but from his infirmities, the parish register, and the contempt of mankind. And age, if it has not esteem, has nothing.

I would there were no age between ten and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting.

Every schoolmaster after the age of forty-nine, is inclined to flatulence is apt to swallow frequently and to puff.

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.

I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too.

Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom.

Age merely shows what children we remain.

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Your lordship, though not clean past your youth, have yet some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltiness of time.