Maturity Quotes

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Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste ears, trying to get someone to give that respect to… — Lois McMaster Bujold
Disobey n:To celebrate with an appropriate ceremony the maturity of a command — Ambrose Bierce
True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriend - and he accepts it — Larry McMurtry
The immature man wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mature man wants to live humanely for one — Wilhelm Stekel
Women do not find it difficult nowadays to behave like men, but they often find it extremely difficult to behave like gentlemen — Compton Mackenzie
The average girl would rather have beauty than brains because she knows the average man can see much better than he can think- Ladies' Home… — Fred Allen
When a woman comes to her class, she does not employ her time in making herself look more advantageously what she really is, but endeavours… — Joseph Addison
Women are in league with each other, a secret conspiracy of hearts and pheromones — Camille Paglia
Woman submits to her fate; man makes his — Emile Gaboriau
A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman is as bad as she dares — Elbert Hubbard
A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man's man only as long as he can — Moms Mabley
A woman should be an illusion — Ian Fleming
We believe that all men are created equal because they are created in the image of God — Harry S. Truman
The First Amendment makes confidence in the common sense of our people and in the maturity of their judgement the great postulate of our democracy. — William O. Douglas
In positive terms, we can state that psychological maturity entails finding greater satisfaction in giving than in receiving; having a capacity to form satisfying and… — William C. Menninger
When people hear my daughter and when they know about her wisdom and maturity, they think that her father must have been sitting with her… — Ziauddin Yousafzai
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd grown up — Eve Babitz
Aloneness is a wise teacher. Kierkegaard remarked that one sign of spiritual maturity was the ability to be comfortable when alone. — Vernon Howard
Most of us don't mind doing what we ought to do when it doesn't interfere with what we want to do, but it takes discipline… — Joseph B. Wirthlin
By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We… — Marie Dressler

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