Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
—Kurt Vonnegut
You grow up the day you have the first real laugh at yourself.
—Ethel Barrymore
Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.
—P.G. Wodehouse
Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'
—Erich Fromm
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.
—Kurt Vonnegut
You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.
—Dave Barry
The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old.
—Jean Kerr
Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
—Bill Cosby
Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.
—Edith Wharton
What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
—Dave Barry
There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes.
—Doctor Who
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
—Eve Babitz
To be mature means to face, and not evade, every fresh crisis that comes.
—Fritz Kunkel
Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up. That he has to leave the nest, the security, and go out to do battle. He has to lose everything that is lovely and fight for a new loveliness of his own making, and it's a tragedy. A lot of people don't have the courage to do it.
—Helen Hayes
Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.
—Jules Feiffer