Quotes About Experience

You don't know what it is to live and laugh and love and run a man through! You've never tasted salty air on your tongue or waved heartily at a mermaid!

A change of opinions is almost unknown in an elderly military man.

By experts in poverty I do not mean sociologists, but poor men.

We all make mistakes, probably the man most often.

When she was fifteen if you'd told her that when she was twenty she'd be going to bed with bald-headed men and liking it, she would have thought you very abstract.

Experience is a poor guide to man, and is seldom followed. What really teaches a man is not experience, but observation.

Hollywood is weird, man. The child-actor world is the weirdest. But somehow I survived.

If a man doesn't know death, he doesn't know life.

Hunt looked like a man who had visited many woman's beds and knew exactly what to do in them.

The age, you know. A man can be wiser and wiser, and a woman is older and older.

My hair is grey, but not with years, Nor grew it white In a single night, As men's have grown from sudden fears.

A man in his life may have many teachers, some most unexpected. The question lies with the man himself: Will he learn from them?

Now we are expected to be as wise as men who have had generations of all the help there is, and we scarcely anything.

Sometimes it seems to me I've known so many men that the FBI ought to come to me first to compare fingerprints.

A labourer cannot sit at the table and write, but a man who has worked at the table all his life can certainly take to physical labour.

I am an old man and have had many worries, but most have never come to pass.

Any man can make a mistake; only a fool keeps making the same one.

That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself.

A man who means to think and write a great deal must, after six and twenty, learn to read with his fingers.

King Solomon, who supposedly was the wisest of all men, described his youth as his winter and his advanced years as his summer. We can be older than we used to be yet feel much younger than we are.

in my opinion, the Divine is revealed to all men once at least in their lives.

I think you need to have lived more to truly know a man's heart. You need to have made more transactions in life to know the worth of the coin you spend so freely

War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the moon is likely to be dull.

My father was an amazing man. The older I got, the smarter he got.