Quotes About Experience

I take the stage as a man in his fifties and walk off the stage like a man in his twenties.

Since I write in first person and have no idea what goes on in men's heads.

The first thing we become convinced of is that man is organized so as to be far more sensible of pain than of pleasure.

The wisest man may always learn something from the humblest peasant.

As a man grows older it is harder and harder to frighten him.

Old men grasp more at life than babies, and leave it with a much worse grace than young people. It is because all their labours having been for this life, they perceive at last their trouble lost.

I always date younger men. For some reason that's just the way it's gone, because younger guys have always asked me out and I accept.

People say I'm not good at writing about men. My dad left when I was 16. Give me a break. I'm doing the best I can.

At least us old men remember what a real bear market is like, and the young men haven't got a clue.

It is a little learning, and but a little, which makes men conclude hastily. Experience and humility teach modesty and fear.

I suppose they're confident. I think younger guys love the idea of a divorced woman who's going to teach them how to be a man.

I was voted the most beautiful girl in the world in 1958, and courted by every young, available man in Los Angeles, most of whom I didn't go out with, by the way.

I was a very naive young man, and I may still be ignorant about a lot of things.

Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools.

Man, be he who he may, experiences a last piece of good fortune and a last day. [Ger., Der Mensch erfahrt, er sei auch wer er mag, Ein letztes Gluck und einen letzten Tag.]

Old men who never cheated, never doubted, Communicated monthly, sit and stare At the new suburb stretched beyond the run-way Where a young man lands hatless from the air.

Just because a man glances up at the sky at night does not make him an astronomer, you know.

Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.

A man really living alone (alone mentally as well as physically) would have little or no occasion to reflect upon his past experience to extract its net meaning.

I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, and I have enjoyed it.

It is better to be An old man's derling than a yong man's werling.

We may outgrow the things of children, without acquiring sense and relish for those which become a man.

I am a happy man. I've had a good life.

Seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books.