Quotes About Experience

There could be no such experience if death means extinction or cessation. Death always means separation, and it does in Romans 6 as well.

These three—fellowship, the Word, and prayer—will enable the believer to experience the new life in his heart: in his intellect, emotions, will, and spiritual life.

A new Christian cannot be called spiritual, simply because he has not had sufficient time to grow and develop in Christian knowledge and experience.

Constant success shows us but one side of the world adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.

We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.

Hair is vitally personal to children. They weep vigorously when it is cut for the first time; no matter how it grows, bushy, straight or curly, they feel they are being shorn of a part of their personality.

That's all any of us are: amateurs. We don't live long enough to be anything else.

A vida é um palco de teatro que não admite ensaios. Por isso, cante, chore, ria, antes que as cortinas se fechem e o espectáculo termine sem aplausos

Sense of an Ending

After the onslaught of loss, both personal and historical, do we really believe a good lunch and an aesthetic perception settles the matter?

Like the weather, the average long-term experience in investing is never surprising, but the short-term experience is always surprising.

An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

Old age is a shipwreck.

All stones are close to us. The last is behind us. (Toutes les pierres sont près de nous. - La dernière est derrière nous.) [Fables1, The Bird and its Sun / L'Oiseau et son Soleil]

One look, all is said. One word, all is lived. (Un regard, tout est dit. - Une parole, tout se vit.)

The fingers on the windows leave traces on them. The fingers on the body leave invisible traces. (Les doigts sur les vitres - Laissent des traces sur elles; - Les doigts sur le corps - En laissent d'invisibles.)

The ivy of the old age begins at the feet that hurt. (Le lierre de la vieillesse - Commence aux pieds qui blessent.)

The work trains the youth. I have a start of old age ... (Le travail forme la jeunesse. J'ai un début de vieillesse ...)

But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.

I ate umble pie with an appetite.

Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything