Quotes About Experience

The 880-yard heel and toe walk is the closest a man can come to experiencing the panges of childbirth.

I guess you can look at me, and tell I'm the old man. My name is BB King.

I always tell young people in particular: Do not say that nothing's changed when it comes to race in America, unless you lived through being a black man in the 1950s or '60s or '70s.

After all the black man has been through in this world, he can still often reach levels of spirituality the most pampered white man cannot touch. Maybe what he's been through is the reason why.

A practical man is a man who practices the errors of his forefathers.

An old man in a house is a good sign.

Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.

To write tragedy, a man must feel tragedy. To feel tragedy, a man must be aware of the world in which he lives. Not only with his mind, but with his blood and sinews.

Why does man create? Is it man's purpose on earth to express himself, to bring form to thought, and to discover meaning in experience? Or is it just something to do when he's bored?

When you're a kid, somebody's mid-forties, you think they're an old man. Then you grow up and it's like, I was a kid.

We still check in with each other. She was a big part of my life, and me hers. I don't see how there cannot be [that]. That's life, man. That's life.

No man knows till he experiences it, what it is like to feel his own life-blood drawn away into the woman he loves.

All the difference between men and angels is, men are passing through the day of trial that angels have already passed through.

A man does not truly understand his limitations until he has tested them.

A man must have vices, expensive ones if possible. Otherwise when he reaches old age he will have nothing to be redeemed from.

I love a man who has lived a full life and lived on the edge.

We Latins make splendid lovers and splendid older men.

Nothing beats a really rough massage. I really hate a man who goes all limp when he's doing a massage. Who needs a soft massage? Just get in there and rub me hard or don't bother.

for a man of 55 who didn't get laid until he was 23 and not very often until he was 50 I think that I should stay listed via Pacific Telephone until I get as much as the average man has had

Experience can dull. With most men experience is a series of mistakes; the more experience you have the less you know.

It well becomes a man who is no longer young to forget that he ever was.

During high school I worked in a retirement home. I spent many wonderful hours hearing from service men and their widows about WWI.

I've played three presidents, three saints and two geniuses - and that's probably enough for any man.

I've never made love to a ghost but I have made love to men who are a few years away from becoming a ghost.