Quotes About Experience

One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.

The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

We flee away from cities, but we bring The best of cities, these learned classifiers, Men knowing what they seek, armed eyes of experts.

In man, at least, satisfaction is commonly followed by boredom.

How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!

As a man gets older, if he knows what is good for him,, the women he likes are getting older too. The trouble is that most of them are married.

Happiness is enjoyed only in proportion as it is known; and such is the state or folly of man, that it is known only by experience of its contrary.

No man ever became wise by chance.

The difference between working with a man and a woman... is immense.

Why is it that men who can go through severe accidents, air raids, and any other major crisis always seems to think that they are at death's door when they have a simple head cold?

When Goya was 80 he drew an ancient man propped on two sticks, with a great mass of white hair and beard all over his face, and the inscription, "I am still learning."

How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that's wise

What men have thought about life in the past is less important than what you feel about it to-day.

I went to the Westminster College for Men in Missouri, which is what it was called back then, and transferred to the University of Denver where I ultimately got my degree.

If I had read as much as other men I would have known no more than they.

Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he knows nothing but what has passed under his own eyes.

I was an old man when I was 12; and now I am an old man, AND IT'S SPLENDID!

The assaying of tea is an art and not a science. It is the man, and not his instruments, which is the most important. There can be no substitute for my experience and intuited knowledge.

I remember filling my car up in London when an 85-year-old man said to me, 'You've done our age group proud.' That made me laugh. I'm not quite there yet!

The commonest ivory tower is that of the average man, the state of passivity towards experience.

Experience is a safe light to walk by, and he is not a rash man who expects to succeed in future from the same means which have secured it in times past.

An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick, unless soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing for every tatter in its mortal dress.