Quotes About Maturity

Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

A good old man, sir. He will be talking. As they say, when the age is in, the wit is out.

Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations and possessions, the shell of the ego.

Age is not important unless you're a cheese.

One should never make one's debut in a scandal. One should reserve that to give interest to one's old age.

Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.

Age, like distance, lends a double charm.

The child thinks of growing old as an almost obscene calamity, which for some mysterious reason will never happen to itself. All who have passed the age of thirty are joyless grotesques, endlessly fussing about things of no importance and staying alive without, so far as the child can see, having anything to live for. Only child life is real life.

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for nourishment.

Very few people do anything creative after the age of thirty-five. The reason is that very few people do anything creative before the age of thirty-five.

Middle age is when you're faced with two temptations and you choose the one that will get you home by nine o'clock.

Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.

Age appears to be best in four things, - old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.

By the age of fifty, you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth.

Age: that period of life in which we compound for the vices that we still cherish by reviling those that we no longer have the enterprise to commit.

For the unlearned, old age is winter; for the learned it is the season of the harvest.

We are not limited by our old age; we are liberated by it.

A major advantage of age is learning to accept people without passing judgment.