Quotes About Experience

Some men, like a wet dog, sprinkle a shower of advice over you when you are least prepared for a bath.

The habits of a young man are, like his coat, removable; the habits of an old man are like the drapery of a statue.

Passion is a young man's game. Young people can be passionate. Older people gotta be more wise.

Do you think that I am an old man? I could prove to this congregation that I am young; for I could find more girls who would choose me for a husband than can carry any of the young men.

When I was 24 I went to Nigeria and it was such a culture shock, growing up in Australia and suddenly being the only white man in this unit full of black men.

Experience only can teach men not to prefer what strikes them for the present moment, to what will have much greater weight with the them hereafter.

Man must suffer to be wise.

The 'expert' is the man who stays put.

Try to see the world from the eyes of an old man! Old eyes are a good place to begin with for understanding the truths!

A man must always study, but he must not always go to school: what a contemptible thing is an old abecedarian!

Men grow old quickly on the battlefield.

In the way that women forget the pain of childbirth, men forget that they cry in movies.

Have the man at the station put the air in the tires. I did it once myself. Have you ever seen a car with a limp?

The open road is the school of doubt in which man learns faith in man.

To wanna be me is to go through not just the good but the bad. You wanna share my story identically? Man, you gonna take some lumps.

Each movie was a challenge for me, as a man, as an actor. After each movie, something changed in my life, in my character.

Knowledge is to be acquired only by a corresponding experience. How can we know what we are told merely? Each man can interpret another's experience only by his own.

As for men, they will hardly fail one anywhere. I had more visitors while I lived in the woods than at any other period of my life; I mean that I had some.

Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.

But I shall follow the endless, winding way, — the flowing river in the cave of man; careless whither I be led, reckless where I land.

For afterwards a man finds pleasure in his pains, when he has suffered long and wandered long. So I will tell you what you ask and seek to know.

A lot of great art comes from the Afro-American male experience. Black men are geniuses, and many times their desperation, their position as being pariahs, leads them to great originality.

Men come of age at sixty, women at fifteen.

Men live, and then they die. It is the quality of the process of living which matters, that and that alone.