Maturity

When the apple is ripe it will fall. – Proverb

Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits. – Hervey Allen

Basically my wife was immature. Id be at home in the bath and she would come in and sink my boats. – Woody Allen

In my case, adulthood itself was not an advance, although it was a useful waymark. – Nicholson Baker

I believe the sign of maturity is accepting deferred gratification. – Peggy Cahn

Ah, but I was so much older then, Im younger than that now. – Bob Dylan

Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth. – Thomas Alva Edison

Maturity is the capacity to endure uncertainty. – John Huston Finley

Where id was, there shall ego be. – Sigmund Freud

Maturity is knowing when to be immature. – Randall Hall

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

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

Show me a man with both feet on the ground and Ill show you a man who cant get his pants on. – Joe E. Lewis

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

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

Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things dont go well. – Jim Rohn