Maturity

(94 votes)   Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.

Bob Dylan
1941-, American Musician, Singer, Songwriter

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(301 votes)   If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

Vincent Van Gogh
1853-1890, Dutch Painter

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(110 votes)   When the apple is ripe it will fall.

Irish Proverbs
Sayings of Irish Origin

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(83 votes)   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.

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(83 votes)   Maturity is the time of life when, if you had the time, you'd have the time of your life.

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(83 votes)   Your lordship, though not clean past your youth, have yet some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltiness of time.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(82 votes)   Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.

Thomas A. Edison
1847-1931, American Inventor, Entrepreneur, Founder of GE

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(80 votes)   My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(79 votes)   Maturity is the capacity to endure uncertainty.

John Huston Finley
1904-1995, American Classicist

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(75 votes)   Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself.

John Macnaughton

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(69 votes)   Maturity is knowing when to be immature.

Randall Hall

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(65 votes)   I believe the sign of maturity is accepting deferred gratification.

Peggy Cahn

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(62 votes)   Maturity consists in no longer being taken in by oneself.

Kajetan Von Schlaggenberg

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(62 votes)   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
American Writer

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(59 votes)   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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