Quotes About Maturity

The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.

Knowledge in youth is wisdom in age.

What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.

The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.

Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

Old age is just a record of one's whole life.

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.

Old age is not total misery, experience helps.

'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.

I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!

At your age The hey-day in the blood is tame, it's humble.

The old age of an eagle is better than the youth of a sparrow.

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.

The veracity which increases with old age is not far from folly.

In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the passing, we have arrived.

To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.

Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

Age will bring all things, and everyone knows, Madame, that twenty is no age to be a prude.

A woman has the age she deserves.

Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.

When I was very young and the urge to be someplace was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch. When years described me as mature, the remedy prescribed was middle age. In middle age I was assured that greater age would calm my fever and now that I am fifty-eight perhaps senility will do the job. Nothing has worked. In other words, I don't improve, in further words, once a bum always a bum. I fear the disease is incurable.