Quotes About Experience

A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.

One of the fathers saith . . . that old men go to death, and death comes to young men.

The errors of young men are the ruin of business, but the errors of aged men amount to this, that more might have been done, or sooner.

It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.

And if a man goes through fire for his doctrine - what does that prove? Verily, it is more if your own doctrine comes out of your own fire.

Civilization merely develops man's capacity for a greater variety of sensations, and ... absolutely nothing else.

No mathematician should ever allow himself to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man's game

Fried twinkies? Paris nodded. Only once, I've never forgotten the experience. It's like heaven in your mouth, man.

Art is the nearest thing to life; it is a mode of amplifying experience and extending our contact with our fellow men beyond the bounds of our personal lot.

The corne hides it self in the snow, as an old man in furrs.

We Batchelors laugh and shew our teeth, but you married men laugh till your hearts ake.

Men speake of the faire, as things went with them there.

Old men, when they scorne young, make much of death. [Old men, when they scorn young, make much of death.]

Books are all right, but dead men's brains are no good unless you mix a live one's with them.

ThereÂ's no easier way to cure foolishness than to give a man leave to be foolish. And the only way to show a fellow that heÂ's chosen the wrong business is to let him try it.

It is expedient to have acquaintance with those who have looked into the world, who know men, understand business, and can give you good intelligence and good advice when they are wanted.

The notion that as a man grows older his illusions leave him is not quite true. What is true is that his early illusions are supplanted by new, and to him, equally convincing illusions.

The more men you've had, the more I love you.

No man should be allowed to be the President who does not understand hogs, or hasn't been around a manure pile.

Every man must die, Jon Snow. But first he must live.

I have touched more men that I can count. Some with my lips, more with my axe.

The old man laid a withered, spotted hand on his shoulder. "It hurts, boy," he said softly. "Oh, yes. Choosing . . . it has always hurt. And always will. I know.

An old man concludeth from his knowing mankind that they know him too, and that maketh him very wary.

It's always a longer walk to the men's room, buckaroo.