Quotes About Experience

Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom.

A man cannot learn to be wise any more than he can learn to be handsome.

A man away from home need feel no shame. Let's go out there and shame ourselves like crazy.

I don't want to stop acting, but acting in some ways is a young man's game.

When a man of forty falls in love with a girl of twenty, it isn't her youth he is seeking but his own.

A man's clarity of judgment is never very good when you're involved, and as you grow older, and as you grow more involved, your clarity of judgement suffers.

"I won't apologize for my past. A man is supposed to have experience." "From all indications, you've acquired enough for ten men".

When a man is small, he loves and hates food with a ferocity which soon dims. At six years old his very bowels will heave when such a dish as creamed carrots or cold tapioca appear before him.

An old man with something of the youth in him, may feel young in mind and heart only.

That which is usually called dotage is not the weak point of all old men, but only of such as are distinguished by their levity.

A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually waste away, and eventually die.

It is not so important whether a young man has been through the experience of a mission as it is whether the mission experience has been through him.

Anybody who's been married to a man for forty odd years knows he's all talk.

Immortality no longer interests the weary old man at all.

There was no cure for the human condition because every man read the present and plotted the future in the light of his own past.

Imagine a judicial nominee said 'my experience as a white man makes me better than a Latina woman.' Wouldn't they have to withdraw? New racism is no better than old racism.

If I had to pick one form of acting, it would be live theater. That's where I started; that's where I became a man, I think I'm still finishing up that job.

Men of reason have endured;men of passion have lived.

He was either a man of about a hundred and fifty who was rather young for his years, or a man of about a hundred and ten who had been aged by trouble.

I used to write things that might have sounded better coming out of an older person's voice or vision. Hence, "grandpa-boy." I'm an old man, but I'm a boy. A really old boy!

The young need old men. They need men who are not ashamed of age, not pathetic imitations of themselves. ... Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.

I believe that school makes complete fools of our young men, because they see and hear nothing of ordinary life there.

Fields and trees are not willing to teach me anything; but this can be effected by men residing in the city.

I have heard that Tiberius used to say that that man was ridiculous, who after sixth years, appealed to a physician.