Quotes About Maturity

Its whiteness carried with it a certain kind of elegance, the beauty of maturity and experience, symbol of a long life lived wisely and productively.

Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom.

Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom; youth is the season of credulity.

The atrocious crime of being a young man, which the honorable gentleman [Walpole] has with such spirit and decency charged upon me, I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny; but content myself with wishing that I may be one of those whose follies may cease with their youth, and not of that number who are ignorant in spite of experience.

The stories of young men searching for their fathers are the stories of young men who through their adventures father themselves by doing for themselves what they hoped a father would do for them. ("Anthropology: What Is Lost In Rotation")

Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer.

Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.

At your ageThe heyday in the blood is tame, it's humble.

I fear he will prove the weeping philosopher when he grows old, being so full of unmannerly sadness in his youth.

The ripest fruit first falls.

Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty;For in my youth I never did applyHot and rebellious liquors in my blood.

Therefore my age is as a lusty winter,Frosty, but kindly.

An unlesson'd girl, unschool'd, unpractic'd;Happy in this, she is not yet so oldBut she may learn.

How many things by season season'd areTo their right praise and true perfection!

Love is too young to know what conscience is.

Young in limbs, in judgment old.

Your lordship, though not clean past your youth, hath yet some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltness of time.

I never knew so young a body with so old a head.

Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!

Men ne'er spend their fury on a child.

How much more elder art thou than thy looks!

Before thy hour be ripe.

He was able to love them again, but he loved them now in a wiser way, knowing their weakness.

The mark of an immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.