Quotes About Experience

I'm a very old man. I've had lots of problems. Most of them never happened..!

The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which never will grow dim or doubtful.

I knew a man who grabbed a cat by the tail and learned forty percent more about cats than the man who didn't.

When a man stands on the verge of seventy-two you know perfectly well that he never reached that place without knowing what this life is - heartbreaking bereavement.

The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.

We were young, we were merry, we were very, very wise, And the door stood open at our feast, When there passed us a woman with the West in her eyes, And a man with his back to the East.

Old men feel a slightly reluctant affection for one another.

Young men preen. Old men scheme.

I've never had a dislike for men. I've been badly treated by some. But I've been loved greatly by some. I married a lot of them.

All men leave the harbour of youth, but only few reach the very far island of wisdom!

We don't know Religion's death date but we know its birthday: The very night man experienced his first great fear of anything!

It?s not me to sleep with loads of men, but I do believe in having different experiences. At the end of the day, the nicest thing is the old-fashioned one-on-one.

Don't ever take seriously, don't ever consider, don't even pay any attention to what a man says or does until he gets to about 30.

A man may by custom fortify himself against pain, shame, and suchlike accidents; but as to death, we can experience it but once, and are all apprentices when we come to it

Travelling through the world produces a marvellous clarity in the judgment of men. We are all of us confined and enclosed within ourselves, and see no farther than the end of our nose.

Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.

There is never a rational reason for a man to rejoice that a certain pretty girl exists and that he has found her. The experience, however, is universal.

As a child I really didn't like men at all, in fact.

I know of few men over 50 that seem to me entirely human, virtually none who has long exercised authority.

Wounds are an essential part of life, and until you are wounded in some way, you cannot become a man.

What I'm trying to do [in Winter Journal] is to tell the story of a man's life from birth, but there are different versions of him, four different versions.

I regretted not being a person in shape many a day while we were making this film [Swiss Army Man].

Men in their late 50s often make very bad decisions.

Didgeridoo was something I picked up while I was on tour in Australia with Peter Gabriel in '93. I found out later that it's only meant to be played by men.