Quotes About Experience

I have never known a man who was sensual in his youth, who was high-minded when old.

I don't know yet whether I fully believe in fate, but certain things do happen in a man's life that he cannot explain.

There's a Chinese proverb that says it all: Painting is an old man's art.

I've had six or eight hookers in my life. I never woke up the next day thinking man I'm glad I got a hooker last night.

I would strongly recommend any young man to stay away from criminal law. It's not a good place to be, unfortunately.

There are few pains so grievous as to have seen, divined, or experienced how an exceptional man has missed his way and deteriorated

The years leech at a man's memories, even those he has vowed never to forget.

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.

The percept is the landscape before man, in the absence of man.

Men who have not known the horror of death are not likely to be awed by it.

Man is the microcosm: I am my world.

When a man's faith is never tried, I don't think he'll ever learn anything. You have to have trial and tribulation, or what are you going to learn?

My wife can't figure out what to buy me. What do you give a man who's had everything up to here?

Believe me, no civilized man ever regrets a pleasure, and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleasure is.

As it was, we always misunderstood ourselves and rarely understood others. Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

The mark of a man of the world is absence of pretension.

It is always in season for old men to learn.

Tis said that wrath is the last thing in a man to grow old.

Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.

I have found men who didn't know how to kiss. I've always found time to teach them.

There's one thing my old man taught me and it's the best thing he taught me. It wasn't education at college or university – it was commonsense.

When I was happy I thought I knew men, but it was fated that I should know them in misfortune only.

Every man has his folly, but the greatest folly of all … is not to have one.

Inadequacy of his own strength, learned from experience, impels and urges a man to enlist the help of others.