#Maturity Quotes

“Such antics do not amount to a man.”

“He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man. He that is more than a youth is not for me, and he that is less than a man, I am not for him.”

“I covet truth; beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth.”

“Men from children nothing differ.”

“To say then, the majority are wicked, means no malice, no bad heart in the observer, but, simply that the majority are unripe, andhave not yet come to themselves, do not yet know their opinion.”

“Most x-rated films are advertised as "adult entertaintment,"for "mature adults," when in reality they are juvenile entertainment for immature and insecure people.”

“The intelligent desire self-control; children want candy.”

“Kids instinctively know - although they will argue to the contrary - that they really are not mature enough to make good decisions on some important issues.”

“Problem-solving becomes a very important part of our makeup as we grow into maturity or move up the corporate ladder.”

“Though age from folly could not give me freedom, It does from childishness.”

“but one loses, as one grows older, something of the lightness of one's dreams; one begins to take life up in both hands, and to care more for the fruit than the flower, and that is no great loss perhaps.”

“I feel my brains, like a pear, to see if it's ripe; it will be exquisite by September.”

“Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.”

“Middlemarch, the magnificent book which with all its imperfections is one of the few English novels for grown-up people.”

“The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.”

“Ideas are like beards; men do not have them until they grow up.”

“At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.”

“I approach love differently now that I know it's hard for it to work out.”

“In high school, I used to think it was "like sooooo cool" if a guy had an awesome car. Now none of that matters. These days I look for character and honesty and trust.”

“As I grow up, the lessons I learn in love and relationships and how we treat each other are hopefully maturing - hopefully.”

“Eternal vigilance is only part of the price of freedom. The maturity to live with imperfections is another crucial part of the price of freedom.”

“I've apparently been the victim of growing up, which apparently happens to all of us at one point or another”

“A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life.”

“Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.”

“The bulk of mankind are schoolboys through life.”

“Although not a very old man, I have yet lived a great deal in my life, and I have known sorrow too bitter and joy too keen to allow me to become either cast down or elated for more than a very brief period over any success or defeat.”

“I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can't get bitter, we can't get jaded.”

“One year Halloween came on October 24, three hours after midnight. At that time, James Nightshade of 97 Oak Street was thirteen years, eleven months, twenty-three days old. Next door, William Halloway was thirteen years, eleven months, and twenty-four days old. Both touched toward fourteen; it almost trembled in their hands. And that was the October week when they grew up overnight, and were never so young any more.”

“Maturity consists in the discovery that there comes a critical moment where everything is reversed, after which the point becomes to understand more and more that there is something which cannot be understood.”

“All people on the planet are children, except for a very few. No one is grown up except those free of desire.”

“The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.”

“No mirror ever became iron again;No bread ever became wheat;No ripened grape ever became sour fruit.Mature yourself and be secure from a change for the worse.Become the light.”

“You know...it's a hard age. Kids are in that stage where they're beginning to understand the world of adults, without having the maturity of adults to deal with everything going on around them.”

“We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken a lifetime to learn. It seems only the old are able to sit next to one another and not say anything and still feel content. The young, brash and impatient, must always break the silence. It is a waste, for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. This is the great paradox.”

“Men don't mature. Marry a younger one.”

“The older theory was, marry an older man because they're more mature. But the new theory is men don't mature. Marry a younger one.”

“All these years I've been feeling like I was growing into myself. Finally, I feel grown.”

“maturity meant thinking about risk long before you pondered the reward, and that success and happiness in life were as much about avoiding mistakes as making your mark into the world.”

“Friends come and go, clothing is packed and unpacked, households are continually purged of unnecessary items, and as a result, not much sticks. it's hard at times but it makes a kid strongs in ways that most people can't understand. Teaches them that even though people are left behind, new ones will inevitably take their place; that every place has something good and bad to offer. It makes a kid grow up fast.”

“We don't grow older, we grow riper.”

“Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.”

“To grow up is to stop putting blame on parents.”

“Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That's the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don't grow up.”

“Everyone grows old but not everyone grows up.”

“America is the only place where man is full-grown!”

“Responsibility will mellow and sober the youth and prepare them, for the burden they must discharge.”

“How many really capable men are children more than once during the day!”

“It is not a sign of weakness, but a sign of high maturity, to rise to the level of self-criticism.”

“Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older.”

“One of the blessings of maturity is that it sometimes brings one greater courage to be truthful, regardless of what those who do not understand may think or say”