Quotes About Experience

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not; but I am getting old, and soon I shall remember only the latter.

I've never let my school interfere with my education.

The first time I ever saw St. Louis, I could have bought it for six million dollars, and it was the mistake of my life that I did not do it.

A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was gitting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful.

In the spring I have counted one hundred and thirty-six different kinds of weather inside of four and twenty hours.

How come we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

I am an old man and have a great many troubles, But most of them never happened.

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

Some people get an eduction without going to college the rest get it after they get out.

Travel is lethal to prejudice.

Youth, large, lusty, loving- Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

Crested Butte is for spectators; Chamonix is for participants.

If you can not grasp the consciousness-altering experience that real mastery of these disciplines proposes, of what value is your participation?

Wisdom before experience is only words; wisdom after experience is of no avail.

It is astonishing how few stories have been told perfectly.

I had a wonderful childhood, which is tough because it's hard to adjust to a miserable adulthood.

Flying from the United States to Tokyo takes approximately as long as law school.

I believe, in a funny way, the job of the novelist is to be out there on the fringes and speaking for an experience that has not really been spoken for.

Toughest job I ever had: selling doors, door to door.

Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.