“Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.”
Tom Stoppard
“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
Mark Twain
“A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.”
Robertson Davies
“His maturity level is phenomenal for someone his age. He's real mature, handling all the pressure and the publicity. I don't think I could have handled it that way.”
Danny Haney
“To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.”
William Arthur Ward
“Maturity is knowing when to be immature.”
Randall Hall
“It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.”
Charles de Montesquieu