Quotes about maturity
21 quotes from 18 people
Bob Saget1956–2022Dirty Daddy: The Chronicles of a Family Man Turned Filthy Comedian (2014), Ch. 12: Falling Upward, Or What It’s Like To Be Loved And HatedMen must endure
Their going hence, even as their coming hither;
Ripeness is all.My salad days,
When I was green in judgment, cold in blood,
To say as I said then.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Antony and Cleopatra (c. 1606), Act I, Scene V, spoken by CleopatraIn contextI never know whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.
William Makepeace Thackeray1811–1863The Virginians (1857-1859), Ch. 56.
Kurt Vonnegut1922–2007Cat’s Cradle (1963), Chapter 88
