Quotes About Experience

A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is.

I could hardly feel much confidence in a man who had never been imposed upon.

A realist is a man who insists on making the same mistakes his grandfather did.

When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.

It is the lot of man to suffer.

I have been young and am now old, and have not yet known an untruthful man to come to a good end.

Obviously I am not the young man who came to Hollywood in 1946

Any game where a man 60 can beat a man 30 ain't no game.

A man who has been in another world does not come back unchanged. One can't put the difference into words. When the man is a friend it may become painful: the old footing is not easy to recover.

Only the man who has known freedom Can define his prison.

Any one can give advice, such as it is, but only a wise man knows how to profit by it.

A wise man can be a fool in love.

I got plenty of cautions that one or two of these marathons was all a man should do in a lifetime.

To me, the noise of a threshing machine is better music than a lot of music I hear nowadays. I took a man's place in the threshing crew when I was only 14 years old.

Now man cannot live without some vision of himself. But still less can he live with a vision that is not true to his inner experience and inner feeling.

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

I have seen men march to the wars, and then I have watched their homeward tread, and they brought back bodies of living men, But their eyes were cold and dead.

When I was a kid, I slept on rubber sheets, but now, I'm a man. And I can take the wetness!

I wouldn't trade those 10 years for anything. The Navy taught me a lot of things. It molded me as a man, and I made a lot of wonderful friends.

I am an old man who will live until I die," Anselmo said.

A man who has been in danger, When he comes out of it forgets his fears, And sometimes he forgets his promises.

History - that little sewer where man loves to wallow.

A man doesn't have to have all the answers; children will teach him how to parent them, and in the process will teach him everything he needs to know about life.

A man is worked on by what he works on.