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Quotes about maturity
Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits. (Allen Hervey)
It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen. (Allen Hervey)
I believe the sign of maturity is accepting deferred gratification. (Allen Hervey)
Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth. (Allen Hervey)
Maturity is the capacity to endure uncertainty. (Allen Hervey)
Where id was, there shall ego be. (Allen Hervey)
Maturity is knowing when to be immature. (Allen Hervey)
Maturity: among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates. (Allen Hervey)
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. (Allen Hervey)
Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even. Be able to carry money without spending it. Do your duty without being supervised. (Allen Hervey)
Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself. (Allen Hervey)
True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends boyfriends -- and he accepts it. (Allen Hervey)
When the apple is ripe it will fall. (Allen Hervey)
Maturity consists in no longer being taken in by oneself. (Allen Hervey)
Your lordship, though not clean past your youth, have yet some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltiness of time. (Allen Hervey)
One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure. (Allen Hervey)
The immature man wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mature man wants to live humanely for one. (Allen Hervey)
By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future. (Allen Hervey)
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