Famous Quotes & Sayings

Erica Jong

You must have a certain amount of maturity to be a poet. Seldom do sixteen-year-olds know themselves well enough.

Harry Styles

Age is just a number, maturity is a choice.

Woody Allen

The true test of maturity is not how old a person is but how he reacts to awakening in the mid-town area in his shorts.

Richard Rohr

To give, and not demand that others receive . . . that is the crossover point to maturity. . .

William O. Douglas

The First Amendment makes confidence in the common sense of our people and in the maturity of their judgement the great postulate of our democracy.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Most of us don't mind doing what we ought to do when it doesn't interfere with what we want to do, but it takes discipline and maturity to do what we ought to do whether we want to or not.

Pope John Paul II

The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest's inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity.

Karl Rahner

How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like, but by doing what we should. How true it is that not every 'should' is a compulsion, and not every 'like' is a high morality and true freedom.

Compton MacKenzie

Women do not find it difficult nowadays to behave like men, but they often find it extremely difficult to behave like gentlemen

Elbert Hubbard

Morality is the thing upon which your friends smile, and immorality is the thing upon which they frown

Anatole France

Custom alone regulates morals.

Victor Hugo

Morality is truth in full bloom.

Robert Burns

Morality, thou ly bane, Thy tens o' thousands thou has slain!

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Morality, too, is a question of time.

Henry David Thoreau

But they who are unconcerned about the consequences of their actions are not therefore unconcerned about their actions.

Henry David Thoreau

What is morality but immemorial custom? Conscience is the chief of conservatives.

Hugo Ball

Everywhere, the ethical predicament of our time imposes itself with an urgency which suggests that even the question Have we anything to eat? will be answered not in material but in ethical terms.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Profit and morality are a hard combination to beat.

Charles Kettering

You are always too late with a development if you are so slow that people demand it before you yourself recognize it. The research department should have foreseen what was necessary and had it ready to a point where people never knew they wanted it until it was made available to them.

Jane Austen

It was a gloomy prospect, and all that she could do was to throw a mist over it, and hope when the mist cleared away, she should see something else.

Dan Ariely

When you get a checking account, you should have a savings account, and the number for the savings account should be one off of your checking account.

Billy Connolly

I don't know why I should have to learn Algebra... I'm never likely to go there.

Charles Spurgeon

If I had never joined a church till I had found one that was perfect, I should never have joined one at all; and the moment I did join it, if I had found one, I should have spoiled it, for it would not have been a perfect church after I had become a member of it. Still, imperfect as it is, it is the dearest place on earthto us.

Dean Smith

You should just do the right thing.

Dylan Moran

You can't please everyone, nor should you seek to, because then you won't please anyone, least of all yourself.

Donald Trump

Your money should be at work at all times.

Abu Bakr

When you advise any person you should be guided by the fear of God.