Quotes About Experience

Life is like a box of chocolate, you never know what you're going to get.

I may be a idiot, but most of the time, anyway, I tried to do the right thing, an dreams is just dreams, ain't they? So whatever else has happened, I am figgerin this: I can always look back an say, at least I ain't led no hum-drum life.

If your gonna screw up, do it while you're young. Older you get, the harder it is to bounce back.

Well, so what? I may be a idiot, but most of the time, anyway, I tried to do the right thing—an dreams is jus dreams, ain't they? So whatever else has happened, I am figgerin this: I can always look back an say, at least I ain't led no hum-drum life. You know what I mean?

When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened

I've gotten more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

When you are on a great horse, you have the best seat you will ever have.

There is a good saying to the effect that when a new book appears one should read an old one.

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me

Evidently he had the first quality of an angler, which is not to measure the pleasure by the catch.

I saw them before you were born. I came here first in 1900. [Reporter: "Do they look the same?"] Well, the principle seems the same. The water still keeps falling over. 1943, NIAGARA FALLS.

No one can understand history without continually relating the long periods which are constantly mentioned to the experiences of our own short lives. Five years is a lot. Twenty years is the horizon to most people. Fifty years is antiquity. To understand how the impact of destiny fell upon any generation of men one must first imagine their position and then apply the time-scale of our own lives.

Past experience carries with its advantages the drawback that things never happen the same way again.

The problems of the second year of war must be dealt with by the experience of the first year of war. The problems of the third year of war must be met by results observed and understood in the second, and so on.

El pan comido es pronto olvidado.

high standards of experience, of official routine, and of method, which are the qualifications of the Civil Service.

Los hombres del comienzo no deben ser juzgados completamente bajo la luz del fin. Tenía que aprenderse todo; tenía que sufrirse todo. Pero los que aprendieron más lentamente no fueron los que tenían que sufrir más.

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.

a stone / which in its own archaic, simpleminded way / sees life as a chain of failed attempts.

The price, after all, for not having died already goes up not in leaps but step by step, and he would pay that price, too.

How many, after a shorter or longer life (if they still see a difference), good, because it's beginning, bad, because it's over (if they don't prefer the reverse)

No he vivido más que tú, sino sólo lo bastante para pensar de lejos.

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