"If you're telling me I'm not mature,..." - Quote by John Updike
If you're telling me I'm not mature, that's one thing I don't cry over since as far as I can make out it's the same thing as being dead.
More by John Updike
“Photography is the first art wherein the tool does most of the work.”
“"Hit it with the back of your left hand" was the first swing thought I ever heard, brusquely bu not unlovingly put to me by the aunt-in-law who had moments before placed a golf club in my virgin grip. I was twenty-five, and had spent my youth in a cloisterd precinct of teh middle class where golf was a rumoured something, like champagne breakfasts and divorce, that the rich did.”
“Life is a razor, you are always in hot water or a scrape.”
More on Maturity
“Even in this world of course it is the stupidest children who are most childish and the stupidest grown-ups who are most grown-up.”
“When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life.”
“The intelligent desire self-control; children want candy.”
More on Age
“At my time of life opinions are tolerably fixed. It is not likely that I should now see or hear anything to change them.”
“When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.”
“At seventy, I could follow the dictates of my own heart; for what I desired no longer overstepped the boundaries of right.”