Quotes about maturity

Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

— Hervey Allen

Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she would come in and sink my boats.

— Woody Allen

It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.

— Brigitte Bardot

I believe the sign of maturity is accepting deferred gratification.

— Peggy Cahn

Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.

— Bob Dylan

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

— Thomas A. Edison

Maturity is the capacity to endure uncertainty.

— John Huston Finley

Where id was, there shall ego be.

— Sigmund Freud

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

— Vincent Van Gogh

Maturity is knowing when to be immature.

— Randall Hall

Maturity: among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.

— Dag Hammarskjold

By the age of twenty, any young man should know whether or not he is to be a specialist and just where his tastes lie. By postponing the question we have set on immaturity a premium which controls most American personality to its deathbed.

— Robert S. Hillyer

Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even. Be able to carry money without spending it. Do your duty without being supervised.

— Ann Landers

Show me a man with both feet on the ground and I'll show you a man who can't get his pants on.

— Joe E. Lewis

Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself.

— John Macnaughton

True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends boyfriends -- and he accepts it.

— Larry Mcmurtry

When the apple is ripe it will fall.

— Irish Proverb

Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well.

— Jim Rohn

Maturity consists in no longer being taken in by oneself.

— Kajetan Von Schlaggenberg

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

— William Shakespeare

One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.

— Gertrude Stein

The immature man wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mature man wants to live humanely for one.

— Wilhelm Stekel

By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.

— Source Unknown

Maturity is the time of life when, if you had the time, you'd have the time of your life.

— Source Unknown

My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.

— Oscar Wilde