Quotes About Experience

But Fielding lived when the days were longer (for time, like money, is measured by our needs), when summer afternoons were spacious, and the clock ticked slowly in the winter evenings.

Experience is the father, and memory the mother of wisdom.

...wisdom comes by disillusion...

Life is one long experiment in learning. Who can be perfect all the time? Sometimes I feel half-wise, sometimes half-stupid.

Breasts and bosoms have I known Of varied shapes and sizes, From poignant disappointments To jubilant surprizes.

Any real writer — or reader — has had a papercut on the forehead at least once.

With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and a definite hardening of the paragraphs.

I write because... every writer has only one story to tell, really, and I haven't told mine yet.

Those who have had experience with type are aware of its satanic persistence towards error.

These things sift through our minds, with the years, like sand, and find their way out in ink.

There are living days and there are writing days. But you can never have the writing without the living. And if you've got writer's block you'd better go have yourself a day of living to fix it, rather than beating on an idling brain.

[I]t is out of the lore and experience of the ancients and all of those who have studied the powers of the Un-Dead. When they become such, there comes with the change the curse of immortality; they cannot die, but must go on age after age adding new victims and multiplying the evils of the world; for all that die from the preying of the Un-Dead become themselves Un-Dead, and prey on their kind. And so the circle goes on ever widening, like as the ripples from a stone thrown in the water.

There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar always means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.

The power of love to change bodies is legendary, built into folklore, common sense, and everyday experience. Love moves the flesh, it pushes matter around... Throughout history, "tender loving care" has uniformly been recognized as a valuable element in healing.

How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself!...

Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors!

A grandfather is someone with silver in his hair and gold in his heart.

The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.

Kids don't remember their best day of television.

Newlyweds become oldyweds, and oldyweds are the reasons that families work.

25th Anniversary. — Love seems the swiftest but is the slowest of all growths. No man and woman really know what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

No man is a good doctor who has never been sick himself.

The best surgeon is he that has been well hacked himself.