Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

Quote by Tom Stoppard

Topics: Maturity Quotes

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks...

We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks...

Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.

Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.

The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.

The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.

My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had...

My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had...

The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe...

The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe...

Eternity's a terrible thought

Eternity's a terrible thought

Junk journalism is the evidence of a society that has got at least one thing...

Junk journalism is the evidence of a society that has got at least one thing...

Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end?

Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end?

The truth is always a compound of two half-truths, and you never reach it, because...

The truth is always a compound of two half-truths, and you never reach it, because...

Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.

Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.

James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice...

James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice...

It's better to be quotable than to be honest.

It's better to be quotable than to be honest.

It is better to be quotable than to be honest.

It is better to be quotable than to be honest.

If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it...

If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it...

The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too...

The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too...

I think the biggest disease the world suffers from in this day and age is...

I think the biggest disease the world suffers from in this day and age is...

Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing...

Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing...

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man...

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man...