Quotes About Experience

What is a feeling if not a world in a thought?

For my own part, I know of nothing more dreadful to see than an old man's thoughts on a child's forehead; even blasphemy from girlish lips is less monstrous.

But first you got to get out of the library sometimes and meet somebody, 'cause it ain't legal to marry books.

Come day, go day, as the old folks say,

Pleasure being caused by the union of sensation and sentiment, we can say without fear of contradiction that pleasures are a sort of material ideas.

Life is simply what out feelings do to us.

You know what I have noticed? And this is really sad. Flying first class is less scary than flying coach. They speak to you and they're so nice to you and they want to help you and they know you want a drink before the plane takes off. And they bring it to you without asking. If you're sitting in coach and hoping for a drink, good luck.

I travel all the time, and I have two small children.

I've seen a lot of the United States, having stayed in so many different cities and towns for work. It's such a strange and fascinating country, and instead of learning about it through a textbook, I would rather discover its history and traditions and institutions through fiction and nonfiction writers.

Motherless mothers with a history of caretaking experience, usually for sick mothers or younger siblings when they were still children themselves, said that the round-the-clock nature of infant and toddler care sometimes brought up familiar emotions from the past.

Have you ever noticed a little child of three or four walking hand in hand with its father through the streets? It is almost as if the two were walking in time to perfectly different tunes. Indeed, though they hold each other's hand, they might be walking on different planets … each seeing and hearing entirely different things.

anyone,then, who has tasted fairy fruit walks through life beside other people to a different tune from theirs

For if human, or superhuman, experience, and the tragic clash of personality can be expressed by plastic shapes, then one might half believe that these tortured trees had been bent by the wind into the spiritual shape of some old drama.

You are, so to speak, a bad sailor, and the motion of life makes you brain-sick.

Are you quite certain you won't mind having a virgin on your hands?" Not that she imagined she would remain that way for much longer. The penis pressing against her seemed to say that her time as a virgin was down to mere minutes.

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

Mistakes are their own instructors

To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it those who have, fear it.

Strange - is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too.

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

I would not have borne this in my hot youth when Plancus was consul.

Multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum, Multa recedentes adimiunt. (The years, as they come, bring many agreeable things with them as they go, they take many away.)

Lawyers and tarts are the two oldest professions in the world. And we always aim to please.

Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school.