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When the apple is ripe it will fall.
-Proverb
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Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.
-Hervey Allen
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Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she would come in and sink my boats.
-Woody Allen
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In my case, adulthood itself was not an advance, although it was a useful waymark.
-Nicholson Baker
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It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
-Brigitte Bardot
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The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.
-Don Barthelme
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
-Simone de Beauvoir
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I believe the sign of maturity is accepting deferred gratification.
-Peggy Cahn
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Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.
-John Dryden
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Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.
-Bob Dylan
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Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.
-Thomas Alva Edison
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Maturity is the capacity to endure uncertainty.
-John Huston Finley
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Where id was, there shall ego be.
-Sigmund Freud
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Maturity is knowing when to be immature.
-Randall Hall
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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.
-Dag Hammarskjold
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We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice - that is, until we have stopped saying It got lost, and say, I lost it.
-Sydney J. Harris
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A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does.
-Lewis B Hershey
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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.
-Robert S. Hillyer
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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.
-Ann Landers
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I believe a man is born first unto himself --for the happy developing of himself, while the world is a nursery, and the pretty things are to be snatched for, and pleasant things tasted; some people seem to exist thus right to the end. But most are born again on entering manhood; then they are born to humanity, to a consciousness of all the laughing, and the never-ceasing murmur of pain and sorrow that comes from the terrible multitudes of brothers.
-D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
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Show me a man with both feet on the ground and I'll show you a man who can't get his pants on.
-Joe E. Lewis
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In youth the human body drew me and was the object of my secret and natural dreams. But body after body has taken away from me that sensual phosphorescence which my youth delighted in. Within me is no disturbing interplay now, but only the steady currents of adaptation and of sympathy.
-Haniel Long
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True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends boyfriends -- and he accepts it.
-Larry Mcmurtry
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Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.
-George Orwell
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Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well.
-Jim Rohn
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Books about Maturity
