Quotes About Experience

If a man is a fool, you don't train him out of being a fool by sending him to university. You merely turn him into a trained fool, ten times more dangerous.

all men are the same age.

There are few, if any, Canadian men that have never spelled their name in a snow bank.

A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.

A fool is a man who never tried an experiment in his life.

An old man dies. A young woman lives. A fair trade.

Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.

Some old women and men grow bitter with age; the more their teeth drop out, the more biting they get.

The best years of a man's life are after he is forty. A man at forty has ceased to hunt the moon.

At sixty a man has passed most of the reefs and whirlpools....That man has awakened to a new youth....Ergo, he is young.

The man who never reads lives only one.

My errors will point to thinking men the various roads, and will teach them the great art of treading on the brink of the precipice without falling into it.

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.

A man has more character in his face at forty than at twenty - he has suffered longer.

If a man isn't a certain age, he just isn't interesting.

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.

Every man carries the entire form of human condition.

Life can make you do many things, even kiss a man with a runny nose.

A young man of pleasure is a man of pains.

Has any man ever obtained inner harmony by simply reading about the experiences of others? Not since the world began has it ever happened. Each man must go through the fire himself.

Young men know the rules, but old men know the exceptions.

The world exists for the education of each man.