Immature Quotes

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'
Erich Fromm

Love, Says, Mature

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.
Robert A. Heinlein

Love, Happiness, Jealousy

Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats.
Woody Allen

Home, Wife, She

People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.
Muhammad Iqbal

Men, Thinking, Thought

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
T. S. Eliot

Mature, Poets, Steal

The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
Quentin Crisp

Life, Happiness, Character

You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.
Dave Barry

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.
Germaine Greer

Young, Once, Forever

You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I'm taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible.
Harry S. Truman

Best, Two, Impossible

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
Tom Robbins

Humanity, Sober, Rebellious

Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.
Lionel Trilling

Artists, Mature, Steal

I don't pay attention to the number of birthdays. It's weird when I say I'm 53. It just is crazy that I'm 53. I think I'm very immature. I feel like a kid. That's why my back goes out all the time, because I completely forget I can't do certain things anymore - like doing the plank for 10 minutes.
Ellen DeGeneres

Time, Crazy, Forget

We were a savage little lot, Liverpool kids, not pacifist or vegetarian or anything. But I feel I've gone beyond that, and that it was immature to be so prejudiced and believe in all the stereotypes.
Paul McCartney

Kids, Gone, Beyond

Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.
Vladimir Nabokov

Life, Enjoy, Order

I'm immature.
Christina Ricci

I'm really proud of 'Bright Lights' because I was still in the mind frame of my first album when I was putting it together, but next time I want to display something different. I don't want to be as young, immature and all about boys!
Ellie Goulding

Time, Mind, Together

Lots of women love to accuse men of being immature when the fellow in question displays a reluctance to 'commit.'
Julie Burchill

Love, Women, Men

Toxins love to get you while you're young. Lead, mercury, secondhand smoke and sundry other environmental nasties do a lot more damage when tissue is immature, vulnerable and growing than when it's mature and comparatively fixed.
Jeffrey Kluger

Love, Young, While

My rookie year, I was very immature.
Dennis Rodman

I became famous so quickly and so young - it was daunting. I was immature and I used to say some really stupid things in interviews. I never smiled on stage so I looked really serious, but it was because I hated my teeth and was incredibly nervous.
Gary Numan

Famous, Stupid, Young

I want my job to include a little adventure, a little more of a heightened reality than what I'm actually living. And 'Castle' has that. He gets this opportunity to tail these homicide detectives, and he's driven by that. He's a little immature, but he's obviously loving life.
Nathan Fillion

Life, Job, Reality

I still feel like an immature idiot inside, but I look in the mirror and - as a friend of mine once said- this old guy keeps getting in the way.
Ray Romano

Friend, Idiot, Old

I was an overly young father, is the most polite way of putting it. I think I was rather immature and all I can say is that I think I've made a much better grandfather... I don't think I was ready to be a father to be honest.
Michael Morpurgo

Father, Made, Young

I was very immature when I was young, and for me there was no balance. Everything was just all or nothing.
Mickey Rourke

Nothing, Everything, Young

The legal system in Afghanistan is very immature and porous.
Lindsey Graham

Legal, System, Porous

I used to be homophobic, but as I got older, I realized that wasn't the way to do things. I don't discriminate against anybody for their sexual preference, for their skin color... that's immature.
ASAP Rocky

Against, Used, Older

We're kind of like the smoking section in high school. We're immature, keep to ourselves.
Matt Stone

School, Keep, Smoking

I was immature the way I handled the business. I saw myself as a tribune of the people.
Ron Silver

Business, Handled, Tribune

The immature artist imitates. Mature artists steal.
Lionel Trilling

Artist, Artists, Mature

Rare is the human being, immature or mature, who has never felt an impulse to pretend he is some one or something else.
George P. Baker

Human, Else, Felt

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