Quotes About Experience

Gentlemen are overestimated, that is my experience.

Men don't get smarter when they grow older. They just lose their hair.

A man of conviction is often more to be desired than a man of experience.

Happy the man who gains sagacity in youth, but thrice happy he who retains the fervour of youth in age.

One man's piss-soaked sadomasochistic orgy is another man's poetic ecstasy.

Men at forty Learn to close softly The doors to rooms they will not be Coming back to.

I often think when a man's once past a certain age, the older he grows the tougher he gets, and women the same or more so.

The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave.

The life of every man is an endlessly repeated performance of the life of man.

No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access.

Learn everything you can - everything. And then use all that you have learned to grow up too be a wise and good man.

When the waitress puts the dinner on the table, the old men look at the dinner. The young men look at the waitress.

The man who has never made a mistake will never make anything else.

Just as the child is father to the man, so the impressions of one's youth remain the most vivid in manhood.

We cannot learn men from books.

The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.

Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.

Men and women are but children of a larger growth.

Certainly there are great men whose age circumscribes them so completely that we lose interest.

It is when their age of passions is past that great men produce their masterpieces, just as it is after volcanic eruptions that the soil is most fertile.

Music is only a means to an end - it is not the end. The concern is with the condition of man

I remember once having to stop performing when I thought an elderly man a few rows back from the front was actually going to die because he was laughing so hard.

We all suffer. If a man's wise, he learns from it.

Oxford is the most dangerous place to which a young man can be sent.