Quotes about Maturity
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
— CS Lewis
Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.
— Carl Jung
Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
— George Bernard Shaw
Youth is wasted on the young.
— George Bernard Shaw
More than by upper-class señoritas, with their long legs and blond manes, I've been impressed by the women of the people: mature, strong, hard-working, earthy.
— Isabel Allende
Exert some independence; you're not a little girl. You can't let anyone else decide things for you. You have to take care of yourself in this world," she said.
— Isabel Allende
Irina could not imagine the courage it took to grow old without becoming too frightened; her knowledge of age
— Isabel Allende
Wrinkles - the service stripes of life.
— Anonymous
Middle age is when you have a choice of two temptations and choose the one that will get you home earlier.
— Anonymous
You lose it if you talk about it.
— Ernest Hemingway
No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
— Epictetus
When I was young I was sure of everything; in a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I was not half so sure of most things as I was before; at present, I am hardly sure of anything but what God has revealed.
— John Wesley