110 Quotes About Immaturity

If we had to earn our age by thinking for ourselves at least once a year, only a handful of people would reach adulthood.

The clash is born of the fact that the child within me sees with undiluted clarity what the adult within me is incessantly working to deny. And in these most vexing moments, to be the adult is to defer to the child.

Most insensible, corrupt, cheap, disrespectful young girls run after bad, rude, cocky, nonsensical boys, but a mature, educated, thoughtful, virtuos lady opts for a wise, well breed, experienced, humble, modest gentleman.

Newspaper publishers profit greatly from the widespread belief that reading newspapers gives others the impression that one is smart or at least mature.

Man’s growth is held back by his surrender to other people’s expectation that he remain the person he was when they met him.

Never take advice about never taking advice. That is an old vice of men - to dish it out without being able to take it - the blind leading the blind into more blindness.

Some children grow up before their parents.

Life sometimes shows kindheartedness by not handing us the success or fame we want, until we have matured enough to be able to handle it.

In a general sense, I admit to valuing the worldviews of men under the age of 40 and women over the age of 30.