Quotes About Experience

He was too well accustomed to suffering, and had suffered too much where he was, to bewail the prospect of change very severely.

Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right. In the general experience, everybody has been wrong so often, and it has taken in most instances such a weary while to find out how wrong, that the authority is proved to be fallible.

Well, I'm sure I hope your health may be good, Louisa; for if your head begins to split as soon as you are married, which was the case with mine, I cannot consider that you are to be envied, though I have no doubt you think you are, as all girls do.

I have an affection for the road ... formed in the impressibility of untried youth and hope.

How weak am I, that I could shed tears at this reception! I who have never experienced anything else; who have never expected anything else.

you'll find that as you get vider, you'll get viser. Vidth and visdom, Sammy, alvays grows together.

Everything in our lives, whether of good or evil, affects us most by contrast

An ancient proverb warns us that we should not expect to find old heads upon young shoulders;

non sono vecchio, ma le vie della mia giovinezza non sono state mai di quelle che portano alla vecchiaia

Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never have had it?

Yours is a long life to look back upon, sir?

When I went out, light of day seemed a darker color than when I went in.

Mr. Tracy Tupman—the too susceptible Tupman, who to the wisdom and experience of maturer years superadded the enthusiasm and ardour of a boy in the most interesting and pardonable of human weaknesses—love.

I may here remark that I suppose myself to be better acquainted than any living authority, with the ridgy effect of a wedding-ring, passing unsympathetically over the human countenance.

I have stood aside to see the phantoms of those days go by me. They are gone, and I resume the journey of my story.

Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigour.

he seemed a kind of cannon loaded to the muzzle with facts, and prepared to blow them clean out of the regions of childhood at one discharge.

Pip, dear old chap, life is made of ever so many partings welded together, as I may say, and one man's a blacksmith, and one's a whitesmith, and one's a goldsmith, and one's a coppersmith. Diwisions

Therefore, as we grow older, let us be more thankful that the circle of our Christmas associations and of the lessons that they bring, expands!

He described it as if he were there, and it was evident that he saw it vividly; perhaps he had not seen much in his life.

He stands precociously possessed of centuries of owlish wisdom. If he ever lay in a cradle, it seems as if he must have lain there in a tail-coat.

and my first decided experience of the stupendous power of money was, that it had morally laid upon his back Trabb's boy.

I came here,' said Dick, rather oblivious of the purpose with which he had really come, 'with my bosom expanded, my heart dilated, and my sentiments of a corresponding description. I go away with feelings that may be conceived but cannot be described, feeling within myself that desolating truth that my best affections have experienced this night a stifler!

I have an affection for the road yet (though it is not so pleasant a road as it was then), formed in the impressibility of untried youth and hope.