The arts, as a reflection of human existence at its highest, have always and spontaneously lived up to this demand of plenitude. No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple.
Rudolf Arnheim

The best books of our times have included the three mature volumes of Philip Larkin. They're very short books of poems, and very carefully arranged.
Robert Morgan

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.
Peter De Vries

The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

The immature artist imitates. Mature artists steal.
Lionel Trilling

The mark of a mature programmer is willingness to throw out code you spent time on when you realize it's pointless.
Bram Cohen

The markets where we've got real good presence are the older, more mature markets like Australia, and Western Europe - where we've only got 6,000 stores, compared to the US with 13,000.
Jim Cantalupo

The point is, once they have a missile that can hit the United States, we are now back in the kind of game we used to worry about with the Soviet Union, only the Soviet Union was more mature about this whole thing than I think the North Koreans will be.
Lawrence Eagleburger

The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate.
Douglas Engelbart

The student body was huge at UT and you had to mature pretty quick, very quick actually. I enjoyed it and it helped me a lot in my life in general - not only in the classroom but on the baseball field as well.
Roger Clemens

There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.
Amy Grant

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
Henri Bergson

To grow mature is to separate more distinctly, to connect more closely.
Hugo von Hofmannsthal

Victor Mature was a big man; he had a great swagger. I liked him and I knew we'd be good together on screen.
Esther Williams

We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.
R. D. Laing

We know from our own history that democratic institutions take decades to mature, and we know from past conflicts that freedom is not free.
Jim DeMint

We too, through lack of knowledge and of sufficiently mature reflection, mistook the visible outward appearance of the phenomenon for the phenomenon itself.
Leon Jouhaux

What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.
R. Buckminster Fuller

When I became a mature woman, I put both feet firmly on the side of maturity.
Victoria Principal

When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough.
Charles Kuralt