(823 quotes found)
“I was always too mature for my age - and not very happy. I had no young friends. I wish I could go back to those days. If I could only live it all again, how I would play and enjoy other girls. What a fool I was.”
Maria Callas
“Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.”
Albert Einstein
“Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension.”
Joshua Loth Liebman
“Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, / Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; / Conspiring with him how to load and bless / With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eaves run.”
John Keats
“The First Amendment makes confidence in the common sense of our people and in the maturity of their judgment the great postulate of our democracy.”
William Orville Douglas
“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.”
Karl Rahner
“Overall the fundamentals seem to be there and he's obviously got a very mature head on his shoulders. He's got a kind of presence.”
Nick Price
“A widow is a fascinating being with the flavor of maturity, the spice of experience, the piquancy of novelty, the tang of practiced coquetry, and the halo of one man's approval.”
Helen Rowland
“Maturity is the ability to do a job whether or not you are supervised, to carry money without spending it and to bear an injustice without wanting to get even.”
Ann Landers
“I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.”
Tom Stoppard
