Quotes About Experience

I was a stunt man for 35 years.

At thirty most men have prejudices rather than opinions-that is to say, rather than judgments-and few men have lived to be sixty without materially modifying the opinions they held at thirty.

Every failure teaches a man something, to wit, that he will probably fail again.

Stand-up is every man for himself; you learn from hanging out at these clubs and watching other guys, and then trying not to be like them.

Harrison Ford may be getting old, but he can fight like a 28 year old man.

I had an old man moment the other day. I went into Abercrombie & Fitch to get some jeans and the music was so loud I couldn't stay.

I have the world's worst taste in men, so now I simply have wonderful relationships of the friend kind, but trying to settle down with somebody? No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I'm beyond that.

The civilized man is a more experienced and wiser savage.

I fear that he who walks over these fields a century hence will not know the pleasure of knocking off wild apples. Ah, poor man, there are many pleasures which he will not know!

In my short experience of human life, the outward obstacles, if there were any such, have not been living men, but the institutions of the dead.

A man has not seen a thing who has not felt it.

So soon did we, wayfarers, begin to learn that man's life is rounded with the same few facts, the same simple relations everywhere, and it is vain to travel to find it new.

I read a bit of Ray Bradbury when I was a younger man. I don't read a lot of fiction anymore... like, none.

In childhood, death stirred me not; in middle age, it pursued me like a prowling bandit on the road; now, grown an old man, it boldly leads the way, and ushers me on.

No man will be present in those mysteries, yet all men will kneel, no man will be potent, important, yet all men will feel what it is to be a woman.

I have a history with charismatic, attractive men who just wear me out.

A man who has been through bitter experiences and travelled far enjoys even his sufferings after a time

A knowledge of mankind and of things that surround us gives us that second education which proves far move valuable than our first because it alone turns out a truly accomplished man.

Anything is possible in the life of a man if he lives long enough. Even maturity.

Before a man's forty, girls cost nothing. After that you have to pay money, or tell a story. Of the two, it's the story that hurts most. Anyway I'm not forty yet.

There are three stages to a man's life. 1. He laughs at Clark Griswold. 2. He sympathizes deeply with Clark Griswold. 3. He laughs at Clark Griswold.

Most men make the voyage of life as if they carried sealed orders which they were not to open till they were fairly in mid-ocean.

A man is old when he can pass an apple orchard and not remember the stomachache.

The story of any one man's real experience finds its startling parallel in that of every one of us.