Maturity is the capacity
to endure uncertainty.
?John Huston Finley
It takes a long time to bring
excellence to maturity.
?Titus Livy
Youth condemns; maturity condones.
?Amy Lowell
It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
?Brigitte Bardot
Man's maturity: to have regained the
seriousness that he had as a child at play.
?Friedrich (Wilhelm) Nietzsche
Adults are obsolete children.
?Dr. Seuss
My experience is that as soon as
people are old enough to know better,
they don't know anything at all.
?Oscar Wilde
You're never too old to grow up.
?Shirley Conran
Maturity is often more absurd than youth and
very frequently is most unjust to youth.
?Thomas A. Edison
The mark of the immature man is that
he wants to die nobly for a cause,
while the mark of the mature man is
that he wants to live humbly for one.
?Wilhelm Stekel
When I grow up I want to be a little boy.
?Joseph Heller
I believe the sign of maturity is
accepting deferred gratification.
?Peggy Cahn
One stops being a child when one realizes that
telling one's trouble does not make it better.
?Cesare Pavese
