Quotes About Experience

Take risks: if you win, you will be happy; if you lose, you will be wise.

The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

A scar is a memory from the scrapbook your body is keeping about you.

Scar — fossil in flesh, a hard-earned relic from your life

A scar is a moment of your life preserved like the imprint of a pressed flower in a scrapbook.

He who has been stung by a scorpion is afraid of its shadow.

My life is a twisted rainbow.

Don't worry, it only seems kinky the first time.

My father told me all about the birds and bees. The liar — I went steady with a woodpecker till I was twenty-one.

There may be some things better than sex, and some things may be worse. But there is nothing exactly like it.

The barber learns to shave at the beards of fools.

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

If riding in an airplane is flying, then riding in a boat is swimming. If you want to experience the element, then get out of the vehicle.

You do not need a parachute to skydive — you only need a parachute to skydive twice.

Only skydivers know why the birds sing — they never have to pack a parachute.

You know you're a skydiver when you can't put on a backpack without checking for leg straps.

You know you're a skydiver when you know what the lines mean on a weather map.

I never smoked a cigarette until I was nine.

Robert Wilmott was responsible for no small part of the Morro Castle's success. Passengers frequently made sure that he was still in command of the ship before buying a ticket. He was the perfect ship's captain for passengers who had never been on anything bigger than the ferryboat to Staten Island.

For certain people after 50, litigation takes the place of sex.

For certain people after fifty, litigation takes the place of sex.

The aging chose the years of their youth, yet the young, who were not even born then, would have to live in those years. There was a certain injustice in that - choosing the time the next generation would live in. As happens in all elections, actually.

Whoever wants to understand much must play much.

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