Adult Behavior Quotes

Woman understands children better than man does, but man is more childlike than woman.

It's easier to be a grownup than to be a kid. When you're a kid, you lie constantly and people are always calling you on it. And when you're a grownup, you lie constantly and people rarely do. Children are constantly being caught. Adults rarely so. Being an adult, you also get a free pass, which means you have to actively be a good person because nobody's around to tell you to do that. Even evil kids will be good when adults are watching. But once you're an adult, no one is. As a grownup, you've got an agency over your own life, which hopefully you use for the greater good and not evil.

You can't pee like a puppy if you wanna run with the big dogs.

Adults acting like children and children acting like adults is generally a pretty reliable comic device.

You need to act your age and not your girl's age

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

Everybody is welcome to come to dinner, but there's going to be the adult table and the kids' table. Whiny people who want to throw food and make noise and interrupt and be rude and act like children, they can sit at the kids' table.

Grow up, Donald Trump. Grow up. Time to be an adult. You're president. You've got to do something. Show us what you have.

I'm only waiting for my wife to grow up.

Even in this world of course it is the stupidest children who are most childish and the stupidest grown-ups who are most grown-up.

I don't see anyone walking around with a puppet on his hand in real life. Puppet therapy is very common for children. It's not something that adults take on.

Anyone can tell you that how you're raised as a child has a great deal to do with how you behave as an adult and whether you have complexes or whether you need to prove yourself or all that kind of stuff and yet the mother in a traditional family who has raised a child never makes it in the history books.

I have to explain to my daughter what it means when adults lie. I have to explain to my daughter what it means when adults are bullies. I have to explain to my daughter what it means when an adult says something that's not true just to try to score political points.

Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults; and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage.

As an adult, I'm not supposed to go down slides. So if I'm at the top of a slide, I have to pretend that I got there accidentally. "How the hell did I get up here? I guess I have to slide down. Whee!" That's what you say when you're having fun. You refer to yourself and some other people.

I was, like, forty at birth. When I wasn't even a year old, I spoke, I was potty trained, I walked and talked. That was it. Then I started school and drove everybody crazy because they realized I had popped out as an adult. I had adult questions and wanted adult answers.

God knows it's a sign of a really sick mind to see grown people, adults with responsibilities, wearing class rings.

Grow up, Donald Trump. Grow up. Time to be an adult. You're president. You gotta do something. Show us what you have.

I won't be going to any New Year's Eve parties because I think they're naff. No one over the age of 15 should bother going to parties.

We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it's not just my way or the highway.

A guy may wear a suit and have a high-paying job and appear very mature, but essentially, he's a 14-year-old boy.

You have attained maturity; display it for us, if you please.

If everyone is mature, there is no comedy.

I can't let myself act immature, in a way.

The average adult laughs 15 times a day; the average child, more than 400 times.