Quotes of Immaturity - somelinesforyou

“ Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never. ”

- Anna Jameson

“ It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences. ”

- Roger Bacon

“ The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be. ”

- Abba Eban

“ The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence. ”

- Art Linkletter

“ We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain. ”

- Saint Augustine

“ Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it. ”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

“ Yes, of course we were pretentious — what else is youth for? ”

- Julian Barnes

“ The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence and obsolescence. ”

- Art Linkletter

“ If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable. ”

- Thomas More

“ Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person. ”

- Chanakya

“ It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen. ”

- Herodotus

“ You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming. ”

- Pablo Neruda

“ A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past. ”

- Elizabeth I

“ Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another. ”

- Immanuel Kant

“ Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths. ”

- Elizabeth I

“ I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it. ”

- Walt Disney

“ A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world. ”

- Joseph Addison

“ A contented mind is the best source for trouble. ”

- Titus

“ Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac. ”

- George Orwell

“ Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'. ”

- Immanuel Kant

“ Infantilism is possibly the hallmark of our generation. ”

- John Wells

“ The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture. ”

- Titus

“ A popular government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both. ”

- James Madison

“ I think people in general have neglected to learn about history. ”

- Maynard James Keenan

“ Youth is the pollenThat blows through the skyAnd does not ask why. ”

- Stephen Vincent Benet

“ Keep flax from fire, youth from gaming. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ I could never have imagined that firing 67 people on national television would actually make me more popular, especially with the younger generation. ”

- Donald Trump

“ What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and yet loses his soul? ”

- Jesus Christ

“ What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul? ”

- Robert Fulghum

“ Adolescence: A stage between infancy and adultery. ”

- Ambrose Bierce
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