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Maturity is the capacity to endure uncertainty.

It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Youth condemns; maturity condones.

It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.

Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.

Adults are obsolete children.

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

You're never too old to grow up.

Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.

The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.

When I grow up I want to be a little boy.

I believe the sign of maturity is accepting deferred gratification.

One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it better.

The immature man wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mature man wants to live humanely for one.

What power had I before I learned to yield? Shatter me Great Wind! I shall possess the field! Richard Wilbur a stanza from his poem To A Milkweed.

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.

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

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

Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.