Quotes About Experience

Old men, for the most part, are like old chronicles that give you dull but true accounts of times past, and are worth knowing only on that score.

The spot of ground on which a man has stood is forever interesting to him.

What is a great life if not a youthful idea executed by a man of mature years.

Oh good gray head which all men knew!

A young man with a very good past. [Fr., Un jeune homme d'un bien beau passe.]

Women know things that men will never know. We keep the best secrets. We tell the best stories.

And did I not think then, What nonsense it is to suppose one man so different from another when all that life really boils down to is getting a decent cup of coffee and room to stretch out in?

A good critic is the man who describes his adventures among masterpieces.

I knew a man who had been virtually drowned and then revived. He said that his death had not been painful.

I've been getting chatted up by men ever since I was 14.

I 've been married so much in my life that I never really had lovers, so it's been a fun time. Hopefully the men are enjoying it as well.

If you haven't been to Burning Man, you should do it once. It's an extraordinary experience. Some of the best artwork I've ever seen in or out of a museum. Amazing.

We are men on a budget. I mean, why go all the way to Amsterdam when you can just go to Harry Hines?

He was one of those men who, as in youth they are never very young, so in age are they never very old.

You men find so many angels in your travels. You have been honester than some. You have generally been off with the old angel before you were with the new, as far at least as I knew.

It is self-evident that at sixty-five a man has done all that he is fit to do.

I was 28 when I played the role of a 65 year old man in my first film.

The young man taught all he knew and more; The middle-aged man taught all he knew; The old man taught all that his students could understand.

Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers.

What we makes of the world must be largely dependent on the sense-organs that we happen to possess. How the world must have changed since the man came to rely on his eyes rather than his nose.

It is, indeed, only in old age that intellectual men attain their sublime expression, whilst portraits of them in their youth show only the first traces of it.

Whether it's being a leading man, making TV shows, being with my family, I've learned a lot.

The only other people who have had experiences similar to those of this man were locked up inside institutions for the criminally insane. The difference is, this guy gets business cards.

A man's life is like a well, not like a snake--it should be measured by its depth, not by its length.