Quotes About Maturity

A man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still communist at the age of thirty is an even bigger one.

Nothing is more dishonorable than an old man, heavy with years, who has no other evidence of his having lived long except his age.

A good and true woman is said to resemble a Cremona fiddle: age but increases its worth and sweetens its tone.

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese.

To me, life is like the back nine in golf. Sometimes you play better on the back nine. You may not be stronger, but hopefully you're wiser. And if you keep most of your marbles intact, you can add a note of wisdom to the coming generation.

You cannot grow a beard in a moment of passion.

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.

First you forget names, then you forget faces, then you forget to pull your zipper up, then you forget to pull your zipper down.

It takes a long time to become young.

By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, 'At my age, I don't even buy green bananas'.

As you get older, the pickings get slimmer, but the people don't.

Yes, time flies. And where did it leave you? Old too soon...smart too late.

Dont let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in life, in love, in faith and in purity. -1 Timothy 4:12

Patience makes a women beautiful in middle age.

Women, then, are only children of a larger growth

Reliable office staff come in the shape of mature married women working from 9.30 to 3.30 (inside school hours) during which they will do more than the 9-5ers.

The heyday of woman's life is the shady side of fifty.

It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.

I get to be a kid now, because I wasn't a kid when I was supposed to be one. But in some ways, I'm like an old woman-lived it, seen it, done it, been there, have the T-shirt.

Fortunately, the time has long passed when people liked to regard the United States as some kind of melting pot, taking men and women from every part of the world and converting them into standardized, homogenized Americans. We are, I think, much more mature and wise today. Just as we welcome a world of diversity, so we glory in an America of diversity -- an America all the richer for the many different and distinctive strands of which it is woven.

The lovely thing about being 40 is that you can appreciate 25 year old men more.