| Author |
Quotes |
| Amy Lowell | Youth condemns; maturity condones. |
| Anonymous | Maturity is the time of life when, if you had the time, you'd have the time of your life. |
| Brigitte Bardot | It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen. |
| Cesare Pavese | One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it better. |
| Dr Seuss | Adults are obsolete children. |
| Hervey Allen | Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits. |
| John Huston Finley | Maturity is the capacity to endure uncertainty. |
| Joseph Heller | When I grow up I want to be a little boy. |
| Peggy Cahn | I believe the sign of maturity is accepting deferred gratification. |
| Richard Wilbur | What power had I before I learned to yield? Shatter me Great Wind! I shall possess the field! Richard Wilbur a stanza from his poem To A Milkweed. |
| Robert S Hillyer | 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. |
| Shirley Conran | You're never too old to grow up. |
| Thomas A Edison | Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth. |
| Thomas A Edison | Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth. |
| Titus Livy | It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity. |
| Wilhelm Stekel | 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 | The immature man wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mature man wants to live humanely for one. |
| Oscar Wilde | My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all. |
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