“Both were rather precocious, and like many precocious young people they found it hard to grow up.”

“Wines are like people. Some are perfect but boring, some are precocious but fail to live up to their promise, and some may be flawed, but the way they may develop is endlessly fascinating.”

“(Precocious children rarely grow up good). My aunts and uncles thought me quite atrocious. For using words more adult than I should”

“Children sometimes know best and we chide them for being precocious. Then we grow aged and become again like children, and they call us wise.”

“It is remarkably precocious when a person accomplishes anything after the age of thirty.”

“It is practically an axiom in psychiatry that precocious intellect combined with physical weakness can give rise to many unpleasant character traits - avarice, delusions of grandeur , and obsessive masturbation, to name just a few. ”