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Quotes About Maturity

Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.
~ Isak Dinesen
Men make love more intensely at 20, but make love better, however, at 30 - Men make love more intensely at 20, but make love better, however, at 30 - Catherine II of Russia
~ Unknown
I have almost done with harridans, and shall soon become old enough to fall in love with girls of fourteen
~ Jonathan Swift
Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.
~ Robert Browning
Love iz like the meazles; we kant have it bad but onst, and the later in life we have it the tuffer it goes with us
~ Josh Billings
Love dies only when growth stops.
~ Unknown
I came to love, I came into my own.
~ Theodore Roethke
In high school you can think you're in love; but I believe you have to know yourself completely before you can truly fall in love and be loved back by someone else.
~ Harriet Van Horne
My boyfriend used to ask his mother, 'How can I find the right woman for me?' and she would answer, 'Don't worry about finding the right woman- concentrate on becoming the right man.'
~ Bill Cosby
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
~ James Arthur Baldwin
Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.
~ Mark Twain
Love is too young to know what conscience is.
~ William Shakespeare
People won't like me for saying it but a major cause of marital problems today are men who want to remain boys, and women who want to be men.
~ Unknown
I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old.
~ Billie Holiday
I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse
~ Benjamin Spock
You may write it on his tombstone, You may cut it on his card, That a young man married is a young man marred
~ Rudyard Kipling
He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question, when a man should marry? 'A young man not yet, an elder man not at all
~ Unknown
Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults
~ Peter De Vries
The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.
~ Peter De Vries
How can you say you love and miss me if you never call or try to see me but I won't let my feelings get the best of me I'm gonna do the mature thing and just walk away.
~ Unknown
The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.
~ Peter De Vries
Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up
~ Unknown
I suppose you're right about some perspectives. Just a few weeks ago, I thought you were a dickhead.
~ Mary E. Pearson