Quotes about Maturity

Sometimes men are still boys, only wearing bigger clothes, until God takes them by the suspenders and gives them a good shake.

There's no such thing is aging, but maturing and knowledge. It's beautiful, I call that beauty.

I am not old, but my young way was never the way to age.

Are you thankful for not being young?' 'Yes, sir. If I was young, it would all have to be gone through again, and the end would be a weary way off, don't you see?...

In short, I should have liked to have had the lightest license of a child, and yet be man enough to know its value

For again Scrooge saw himself. He was older now, a man in the prime of life. His face had not the harsh and rigid lines of later years, but it had begun to wear the signs of care and avarice. There was an eager, greedy, restless motion in the eye, which showed the passion that had taken root, and where the shadow of the growing tree would fall.

Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigour.

Therefore, as we grow older, let us be more thankful that the circle of our Christmas associations and of the lessons that they bring, expands!

Love seems the swiftest but is the slowest of all growths. No man and woman really know what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

At the heart of mature masculinity is a sense of benevolent responsibility to lead, provide for, and protect women in ways appropriate to man's differing relationships.

You were not contented while you had her, and to weep for her now is childish.

The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.