Quotes About Experience

At twenty-eight I'd had a handful of beaux, but had only been in love once, and that had been awful enough to make me doubt men and myself for a good long while.

History, if thoroughly comprehended, furnishes something of the experience which a man would acquire who should be a contemporary of all ages and a fellow citizen of all peoples.

Life and literature is a question of what one thrills to, and further than that no man shall ever go without putting his foot in a turd.

The lives of men who have been always growing are strewed along their whole course with the things they have learned to do without.

No mortal man, moreover is wise at all moments.

When Eudæmonidas heard a philosopher arguing that only a wise man can be a good general, "This is a wonderful speech," said he; "but he that saith it never heard the sound of trumpets.

The only thing which separates man from child is all the values he has lost over the years.

Michelangelo worked from within. He described not the excitements of touching or seeing a man but the excitement of being Man.

Brave men don't learn from their home.

The old men know when an old man dies.

For those who have only ever read about [John] Calvin, reading the man himself is an invigorating experience.

A woman's life revolves in curves of emotions. It is upon lines of intellect that a man's life progresses.

Don't tell me that you have exhausted Life. When a man says that, one knows that life has exhausted him.

I have known men who have been sold and bought a hundred times, who have only got very fat and very comfortable in the process of exchange.

Some people may think I am still young and still a boy but now I feel like I am a man.

A man of many seasons and many rainbows - there are so many dimensions of celebration.

If the whole of history is in one man, it is all to be explained from individual experience.

The finished man of the world must eat of every apple once.

Fashion which affects to be honor, is often, in all men's experience, only a ballroom-code.

Is not, indeed, every man a student, and do not all things exist for the student's behoof?

College men from L.S.U., went in dumb, come out dumb, too.

I was forced to grow up quicker than most. I was forced to be a young man at a young age.

I had a very real fear of spiders until one bit me. I got bitten by a redback spider in Australia and I've never been frightened of them since. Maybe I've turned into Spider-man.

There comes a time in every man's life when he must make way for an older man.