Quotes About Maturity

It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem -and in my esteem age is not estimable.

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.

We grow old more through indolence, than through age.

The appropriate age for marriage is around eighteen for girls and thirty-seven for men.

At middle age the soul should be opening up like a rose, not closing up like a cabbage.

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find - at the age of fifty, say - that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about...It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.

Though age from folly could not give me freedom, It does from childishness.

Genius has no youth, but starts with the ripeness of age and old experience.

When the age is in, the wit is out.

Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

The body is at its best between the ages of thirty and thirty-five; the mind is at its best about the age of forty-nine.

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.

Age is a bad traveling companion.

I want to grow old without facelifts... I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I've made. Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.

At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgement.

It is a man's own fault, it is from want of use, if his mind grow torpid in old age.

Responsibility for learning belongs to the student, regardless of age.