Maturity Quotes

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He feared his maturity as it grew upon him with its ripe thought, its skill, its finished art; yet which lacked the poetry of boyhood… — T.E. Lawrence
You are never too old to become younger! — Mae West
She wore a short skirt and a tight sweater and her figure described a set of parabolas that could cause cardiac arrest in a yak. — Woody Allen
Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Between childhood, boyhood, adolescence and manhood (maturity) there should be sharp lines drawn with tests, deaths, feats, rites, stories, songs, and judgments. — Jim Morrison
We must try again to be alive to what the people of our country really long for in our national life: forgiveness and grace, maturity… — Peggy Noonan
When did you suddenly become Mister Maturity? — Michael Buckley
In referring to her earlier statement that he had was not her type because he was "a dollar short when it came to maturity and… — Tom Robbins
I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived.… — Ursula K. Le Guin
It requires twenty years for a man to rise from the vegetable state in which he is within his mother's womb, and from the pure… — Voltaire
For us lads of eighteen they ought to have been mediators and guides to the world of maturity, the world of work, of duty, of… — Erich Maria Remarque
Listen to your being. It is continuously giving you hints; it is a still, small voice. It does not shout at you, that is true.… — Rajneesh
A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity. — George Bernard Shaw
Don't you understand that we need to be childish in order to understand? Only a child sees things with perfect clarity, because it hasn't developed… — Douglas Adams
When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I… — C.S. Lewis
Maturity, as I conceived it, was recognizing what was bad or peculiar in life, admitting it has to stay that way, and going ahead with… — Richard Ford
There are some questions that shouldn't be asked until a person is mature enough to appreciate the answers. — Anne Bishop
Falling in love you remain a child; rising in love you mature. By and by love becomes not a relationship, it becomes a state of… — Rajneesh
You, oh mature ones, keep company solely with other mature ones, and your maturity is so mature that it can only chum up with maturity! — Witold Gombrowicz
You have attained maturity; display it for us, if you please. — MaryJanice Davidson

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