Famous Quotes & Sayings

just the right touch of maturity and vulnerability

Richard Owen

Mr. Darwin refers to the multitude of the individual of every species, which, from one cause or another, perish either before, or soon after attaining maturity.

William S. Burroughs

Quien sabe? Not me. The older I get the less I sabe, the less wisdom, maturity and caution I have.

Woody Allen

She wore a short skirt and a tight sweater and her figure described a set of parabolas that could cause cardiac arrest in a yak.

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.

Woody Allen

You mellow too much you ripen and rot.

Richard Rohr

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

Witold Gombrowicz

You, oh mature ones, keep company solely with other mature ones, and your maturity is so mature that it can only chum up with maturity!

Samuel Johnson

Whatever is formed for long duration arrives slowly to its maturity.

Wendell Berry

The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.

W. Somerset Maugham

For the complete life, the perfect pattern includes old age as well as youth and 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.

Milan Kundera

It does take great maturity to understand that the opinion we are arguing for is merely the hypothesis we favor, necessarily imperfect, probably transitory, which only very limited minds can declare to be a certainty or a truth.

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.

Joseph Addison

When a woman comes to her class, she does not employ her time in making herself look more advantageously what she really is, but endeavours to be as much another creature as she possibly can. Whether this happens because they stay so long and attend their work so diligently that they forget the faces and persons, which they first sat down with, or whatever it is, they seldom rise from the toilet the same woman they appeared when they began to dress

Spaniards have always shown great maturity and great common sense when it comes to voting.

Kelley Armstrong

Maturity is highly overrated.

Louise J. Kaplan

We belong to that order of mammals, the primates, distinguished by its propensity for repeated single litters, intense parental care, long life-spans, late sexual maturity, and a complex and extensive social existence... Our protracted biological and psychological helplessness, which extends well into the third year of life, intensifies the bond between infant and parents, making possible a sense of generational continuity. In contrast to other primates these bonds are not obliterated after sexual maturity.

Elle Macpherson

I'm almost 50, so I obviously don't have the same body that I had when I was 20. But I also don't have the same mindset either, when I was wracked with self-consciousness and insecurity. Now I really appreciate my maturity as a woman, my depth of spirit and soul and my understanding of who I am and what's important to me.

Neil Young

You can't be 20 on Sugar Mountain.

Kenneth Rexroth

Maturity is having the ability to escape categorization.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Modesty is the graceful, calm virtue of maturity; bashfulness the charm of vivacious youth.

Myles Munroe

A person's readiness to date is largely a matter of maturity and environment.

Nicos Anastasiades

I would like to thank the Cypriot people for their maturity and collectedness shown in their interactions with the Cypriot Banks.

Nicole Scherzinger

Confidence comes with maturity, being more accepting of yourself.

Neal A. Maxwell

A patient willingness to defer dividends is a hallmark of individual maturity.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Obviously, the young dancers lack a certain air of maturity.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

It is not a sign of weakness, but a sign of high maturity, to rise to the level of self-criticism.

Publilius Syrus

It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity. / No one knows what he can do till he tries.

LeVar Burton

Maturity is a series of shattered illusions.

Learned Hand

Those of us who have come to years of discretion and more, must often take to retrospect, and seek to appraise the outcome of our lives.

Oren Arnold

Maturity is the ability to live in someone else's world.

Paul Watzlawick

Maturity… Is The Ability To Do Something Even Though Your Parents Have Recommended It.