Quotes About Experience

In living and in seeing other men, the heart must break or become as bronze.

Men are just like a book - with a beginning, middle and an end.

I don't know of any other creature on earth other than man that will sit in a corner and cry because of some painful experience in the past.

Just because I have rice on my clothes doesn't mean I've been to a wedding. A Chinese man threw up on me.

Agesilaus being invited once to hear a man who admirably imitated the nightingale, he declined, saying he had heard the nightingale itself.

What's the point anyway - Of suffering, dying? It teaches us to live, boy. A man who does not struggle does not live, he survives.

A long-playing full shot is what always separates the men from the boys. Anybody can make movies with a pair of scissors and a two-inch lens.

I have seen many a bear led by a man: but I never before saw a man led by a bear.

Man always thinks about the past before he dies, as if he were frantically searching for proof that he truly lived.

I've been married three times, but I'll never forget my first trip as a young man, on my honeymoon, with my new wife.

The old lose one of the greatest privileges of man, for they are no longer judged by their contemporaries.

Experience makes more timid men than it does wise ones.

The man who gets bit twice by the same dog is better adapted for that kind of business than any other.

A man cannot become a child again, or he becomes childish.

[May 1958, on playing Macbeth at age 30 and age 48] When you're a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When you're older, it's a straight part.

A man thirty years old, I said to myself, should have his field of life all ploughed, and his planting well done; for after that it is summer time.

Babies haven't any hair; Old men's heads are just as bare; between the cradle and the grave lie a haircut and a shave.

That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good.

Wherever that man went, he went gratefully.

Man was made for joy and woe, and when this we rightly know through the world we safely go. Joy and woe are woven fine, a clothing for the soul to bind.

A man is the sum of his misfortunes.

There is a history in all men's lives.

Fish live in water. Men die in it.Nature is diverse, and not all tastes are the same.

He that studies books alone, will know how things ought to be; and he that studies men, will know how things are.