maturity

Do any men grow up or do they only come of age?

My secret to maintaining a youthful appearance? Immaturity.

I would prefer," Pat said, his voice a little stiff, as if he expected resistance, "that I be the cosigner on the loan, if you go through with this. I know I'm not a famous billionaire, but I think my credit's just as good."No, you're wrong about that," Tess said, shaking her head.What?"As far as I'm concerned, it's better. I'd much rather do business with you."They shook on it. It was a deal, after all, not a time for hugging.Favors, Arnie Vasso had once said. Your father knows all about favors. He had meant it as an insult, a sly reference to the corners the Monaghans and Weinsteins cut here and there. Now Tess saw it for the simple truth it was: Her father understood favors. How to do them, how to accept them, how to walk away when the price was too steep. It was a lesson she wouldn't mind learning someday.Maybe this was the place to start.

If a man does not keep pace with hiscompanions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Lethim step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.It is not important that he should mature as soon as an apple-tree oran oak. Shall he turn his spring into summer?

Mary, it must be remembered, was very nearly of the same age as Frank; but, as I and others have so often said before, 'Women grow on the sunny side of the wall.

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.

Discipline brings forth maturity.

Many things become clearer with the perspective of maturity gained.

Maturity is the moment one regains one's innocence.

Just 'cuz a kid is crying doesn't mean it's a conversation worth crying over.

Sixty is heaven," she [bohemian Aunt Norma] told Jeanie as they sat having tea. "The world is done with you, you become to all intents and purposes invisible, particularly if you are a woman. I like to think of it as your third life. There's childhood, then adult conformity - work, family, responsibility - then just when everyone assumes it's all over and you're on the scrap heap of old age, freedom! You can finally be who you are, not what society wants you to be, not who 'you' think you ought to be.

Don't be too enthusiastic when choosing a profession _ think of earningfor life too.

When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

Never does a person feel so wise, so mature and so adult as when she is not.

Before, singing was my life, my vocal chords used to lead the way. Now, I'm in-charge.

Maturity means being able to tolerate, on all sorts of planes, uncertainty and not knowing.

Was she insane?! She would lose her head before she was 20!

Being wise does not necessarily make you mature.