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Quotes About Experience

The man who has not suffered - what does he know anyway?
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
How hard it is, how bitter it is to become a man!
~ Albert Camus
I do date quite small men. And one large man! Just one.
~ Alexa Chung
Wherever comes man comes tragedy and comedy also.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott
At least once in their life, every man should feel what it's like to wear high heels.
~ Andrew W.K.
The story of a poor man's life is written on his body, in a sharp pen.
~ Aravind Adiga
A lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they've seen everything.
~ Ben Folds
You know who the critics are? The men who have failed in literature and art.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
What we need in appointive positions is men of knowledge and experience who have sufficient character to resist temptations.
~ Calvin Coolidge
As a rule, one must write a great many words before one learns to write well.
~ Caroline Gordon
They say that children become men, and men become children. Many generations have grown up, become men, and gone hence.
~ Sholom Aleichem
"You're a bitter man," said Candide. "That's because I've lived," said Martin.
~ Voltaire
Experience has taught me to believe that, these human beans are the most insidious enemies man, with a tendency to corpulence in advanced life, can possess, though eminently friendly to youth.
~ William Banting
All advice can only be a product of the man who gives it.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.
~ Isaac Newton
As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.
~ Izaak Walton
One man's magic is another man's gluey torture session.
~ Jackie Earle Haley
Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.
~ Jean Paul
The man who has lived the longest is not he who has spent the greatest number of years, but he who has had the greatest sensibility of life.
~ Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
The two of them simply weren't attracted to just any attractive, eligible man; they were attracted rarely, but when it happened, it was evidently a life-altering experience.
~ Judith McNaught
A sadder but wiser man is a thousand times more agreeable to meet than the feller that never makes a mistake.
~ Kin Hubbard
Every year there's a few more things I'm not sure of. I've decided that a wide-ranging uncertainty is the mark of the true maturity of man.
~ Lawrence Block
Man's experience is indeed a seamless garment, no part of which can be separated from the rest.
~ Cleanth Brooks
If any young man wants to be a true temperance man let him go and get the delirium tremens, that'll settle it.
~ Dan Rice