#maturin

An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody who's kind of permanently there. And so living with them through the various teenage hopes and sorrows and joys was curiously enough a maturing experience for me. ↗

— Andrew Greeley

#between #curiously #enough #experience #hopes

In a maturing market it's not advisable to be always everybody's darling, because you get too thin. ↗

— Thorstein Heins

#always #because #darling #everybody #get

You do know, I hope, that no man under the age of forty can even approach fascinating. ↗

— Tasha Alexander

#aging-well #fascinating #maturing #age

It was an operation that Dr. Maturin had carried out at sea before, always in the fullest possible light and therefore on deck, and many of them had seen him do so. Now they and all their mates saw him do it again: they saw Joe Plaice's scalp taken off, his skull bared, a disc of bone audibly sawn out, the handle turning solemnly; a three-shilling piece, hammered into a flattened dome by the armourer, screwed on over the hole; and the scalp replaced, neatly sewn up by the parson. It was extremely gratifying - the Captain had been seen to go pale, and Barret Bonden too, the patient's cousin - blood running down Joe's neck regardless - brains clearly to be seen - something not to be missed for a mint of money - instructive, too - and they made the most of it. ↗

— Patrick O'Brian

#aubreyad #barret-bonden #jack-aubrey #joe-plaice #master-and-commander

There's no such thing is aging, but maturing and knowledge. It's beautiful, I call that beauty. ↗

— Celine Dion

#beautiful #beauty #call #i #knowledge

Do you think my mind is maturing late, or simply rotted early? ↗

— Ogden Nash

#late #maturing #mind #simply #think