Maturity

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MATURITY: When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years. (Mark Twain, U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)

MATURITY: The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit. (Moliere, French actor and playwright, 1622-1673)

MATURITY: You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. (Irish Proverb)

MATURITY: We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. (T.S. Eliot, U.S.-born British subject , an essayist, publisher, playwright, and literary and social critic. Who won the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1888-1965)

MATURITY: The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. (Jean Paul Sartre, French writer and philosopher, 1905-1980)

MATURITY: The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life. (Muhammad Ali, U.S. professional boxer, Born 1942)

MATURITY: Maturity is the capacity to endure uncertainty. (John Finley, Canadian singer/songwriter, Born 1945)

MATURITY: Our judgements about things vary according to the time left us to live -that we think is left us to live. (Andre Gide, French author and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1869-1951)

MATURITY: It is unjust to claim the privileges of age and retain the playthings of childhood. (Samuel Johnson, English writer, moralist, literary critic, and lexicographer, 1709-1784)

MATURITY: The work of the mature person is to carry grief in one hand and gratitude in the other. (Francis Ward Weller, U.S. author of children's books)

MATURITY: Maturity consists of no longer being taken in by oneself. (Kejetan von Schlaggenberg, Austrian writer)