Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mary Wollstonecraft

Modesty is the graceful, calm virtue of maturity; bashfulness the charm of vivacious youth.

LeVar Burton

Maturity is a series of shattered illusions.

Learned Hand

Those of us who have come to years of discretion and more, must often take to retrospect, and seek to appraise the outcome of our lives.

Oren Arnold

Maturity is the ability to live in someone else's world.

Publilius Syrus

It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity. / No one knows what he can do till he tries.

Henry David Thoreau

Maturity is when all of your mirrors turn into windows.

Fran Lebowitz

Smoking is, as far as I'm concerned, the entire point of being an adult.

George Saunders

The great American denial riff is that you can do whatever you like and you always triumph at the end. The world is saying no, you can do what you like, but there are consequences. And maturity is to be able to turn to the consequences and accept them.

Jennifer Lawrence

I'm not ready to own a place yet. I have the money, but I don't have the maturity.

Gertrude Stein

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

Jenna Jameson

Maturity comes in three stages: dependence, independence and interdependence

Harry Styles

Age is just a number, maturity is a choice.

Hugo von Hofmannsthal

To grow mature is to separate more distinctly, to connect more closely.

Immanuel Kant

Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.

Elton John

I still want to play music but I don't want to look like Donald Duck while I'm doing it.

Ian Fleming

A woman should be an illusion

Michael Buckley

When did you suddenly become Mister Maturity?

Milan Kundera

It does take great maturity to understand that the opinion we are arguing for is merely the hypothesis we favor, necessarily imperfect, probably transitory, which only very limited minds can declare to be a certainty or a truth.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

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 and maturity to do what we ought to do whether we want to or not.

Joseph Addison

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 to be as much another creature as she possibly can. Whether this happens because they stay so long and attend their work so diligently that they forget the faces and persons, which they first sat down with, or whatever it is, they seldom rise from the toilet the same woman they appeared when they began to dress

Spaniards have always shown great maturity and great common sense when it comes to voting.

John Steinbeck

When I was very young and the urge to be someplace was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch.

Elle Macpherson

I'm almost 50, so I obviously don't have the same body that I had when I was 20. But I also don't have the same mindset either, when I was wracked with self-consciousness and insecurity. Now I really appreciate my maturity as a woman, my depth of spirit and soul and my understanding of who I am and what's important to me.

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.

Kelley Armstrong

Maturity is highly overrated.

Mahatma Gandhi

Be the change you seek.

Edward Bellamy

Hold the period of youth sacred to education, and the period of maturity, when the physical forces begin to flag, equally sacred to ease and agreeable relaxation.

Hermann Hesse

Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.

Helen Mirren

You know, some actors, all of their potential is in their youth, and when that passes, their qualities of as an actor pass. But he - Alan [Rickman] was the opposite, and their are other actors who are like that, who, really, their potential is in maturity

John le Carre

I don't know whether it's age or maturity, but I certainly find myself committed more and more to the looser forms of Western democracy at any price.

Frank Yerby

Maturity is reached the day we don't need to be lied to about anything.

Livy

It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

John C. Maxwell

When your through changing, your through!