Quotes about Maturity
Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also.
- Oscar Wilde
The great majority of men grow up and grow old in seeming and following.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him.
- Samuel Johnson
As a man passes into middle life, or beyond it, autumn, it has been said, whispers more to his soul than any other season of the natural year. It is not difficult to see why this should be.
- Henry Parry Liddon
A man is sane morally at thirty, rich mentally at forty, wise spiritually at fifty-or never!
- William Osler
You are a man still young, so to say, in your first youth and so put intellect above everything.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
King Solomon, who supposedly was the wisest of all men, described his youth as his winter and his advanced years as his summer. We can be older than we used to be yet feel much younger than we are.
- Marianne Williamson
When a man stands on the verge of seventy-two you know perfectly well that he never reached that place without knowing what this life is - heartbreaking bereavement.
- Mark Twain
America is the only place where man is full-grown!
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
- Henry Ward Beecher
There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't.
- John Updike