Quotes About Maturity

Never complain, never explain personal motto of

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

Anyone who thinks they're too grown up or too sophisticated to eat caramel corn, is not invited to my house for dinner

She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

I used to be neurotic. I didn't like myself very much. But somewhere in my mid-40s, my neuroses stopped seeming so important. I developed a sense of humor.

I didn't lose my virginity until I was twenty-six. Nineteen vaginally, but twenty-six what my boyfriend calls "the real way".

Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice.

Years from now, when I'm successful and happy, ...and he's in prison... I hope I'm not too mature to gloat.

As I get older, my sense of humor is my biggest asset.

She had been a teenager once, and she knew that, despite the apparent contradictions, a person's teenage years lasted well into their fifties.

Showing off seemed to me to be a highly valuable and necessary activity when I was 20.

I warn people, your 40s will require massive amounts of humor and humility.

I'm not 17 anymore. I still have some of the same sort of anger, but I have a sense of humor about it... a sense of being constructive with that anger.

When you feel like throwing rocks, make sure they're ones no one can throw back.

Growing up is the dumbest thing I ever wanted to rush into.

Men are most virile and attractive between the ages of 35 and 55. Under 35 a man has too much to learn, and I don't have time to teach him.

You guys gotta get a license to drive a Geo, but any doofus with a few good swimmers can be a father.

I'm past competing in pissing contests. My jet stream is now more of a trickle. The only contest I'd win is the number of trips to the bathroom it takes to purge a 32oz soda.

He was not looking forward to breaking the law. He was straight now. He'd matured. Crime no longer excited him.What?' Ronald said.I didn't say anything.'You're breathing heavy.

Laywers, I suppose, were children once.

I'm forty-two, " he said. "That's eighty-four in musician years.

Two or three years from now thirty won't look so senile.

His age was indeterminate. But in cynicism and general world weariness, which is a sort of carbon dating of the personality, he was about seven thousand years old.

Aging gracefully - A concept that is rejected in 40s, but gracefully accepted in 50s...