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Proverbs, aphorisms, quotations (English) by Linux fortune

Immature artists imitate, mature artists steal.
                -- Lionel Trilling
Immature poets imitate, mature poets steal.
                -- T.S. Eliot, "Philip Massinger"
"The mark of an immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while
the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one."
-- William Stekel
I ask only one thing.  I'm understanding.  I'm mature.  And it isn't much to
ask.  I want to get back to London, and track her down, and be alone with my
Selina -- or not even alone, damn it, merely close to her, close enough to
smell her skin, to see the flecked webbing of her lemony eyes, the moulding
of her artful lips.  Just for a few precious seconds.  Just long enough to
put in one good, clean punch.  That's all I ask.
-- Martin Amis, _Money_
The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause,
while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.
                -- Wilhelm Stekel
It's amazing how much "mature wisdom" resembles being too tired.
I used to think I was a child; now I think I am an adult -- not because
I no longer do childish things, but because those I call adults are no
more mature than I am.
Unix is mature OS, windows is still in diapers and they smell badly.
        -- Rafael Skodlar <raffi@linwin.com>
The major difference between bonds and bond traders is that the bonds will
eventually mature.
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.
                -- Bruce Lee
But was he mature enough last night at the lesbian masquerade?
What I need is a MATURE RELATIONSHIP with a FLOPPY DISK ...
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