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«Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.»
«Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says: 'I need you because I love you'»
«Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.»
Author: Jim Bishop (Writer) | About: Golf | Keywords: mature, played, wives
«It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.»
«Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.»
«Fortunately, the time has long passed when people liked to regard the United States as some kind of melting pot, taking men and women from every part of the world and converting them into standardized, homogenized Americans. We are, I think, much more mature and wise today. Just as we welcome a world of diversity, so we glory in an America of diversity -- an America all the richer for the many different and distinctive strands of which it is woven.»
«Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.»
«A mature person is one who is does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably»
«All that is good in man lies in youthful feeling and mature thought»
Author: Joseph Joubert (Essayist) | Keywords: mature, youthful
«Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.»