Quotes About Experience

Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.

Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.

In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom; but he who reflects not, never reaps; has no harvest from it, but carries the burden of age without the wages of experience; nor knows himself old, but from his infirmities, the parish register, and the contempt of mankind. And age, if it has not esteem, has nothing.

Man reaches the highest point of lovableness at 12 to 17 - to get it back, in a second flowering, at the age of 70 to 90.

I would there were no age between ten and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting.

You will recognize, my boy, the first sign of age: it is when you go out into the streets of London and realize for the first time how young the policemen look.

Every schoolmaster after the age of forty-nine, is inclined to flatulence is apt to swallow frequently and to puff.

Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.

Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom.

Age merely shows what children we remain.

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.

Your lordship, though not clean past your youth, have yet some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltiness of time.

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

We can't reach old age by another man's road. My habits protect my life but they would assassinate you.

As I give thought to the matter, I find four causes for the apparent misery of old age; first it withdraws us from active accomplishments; second, it renders the body less powerful; third, it deprives us of almost all forms of enjoyment; fourth, it

One of the worst things that can happen in life is to win a bet on a horse at an early age.

The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.

What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.

Knowledge in youth is wisdom in age.

What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.

I've dated men my age, younger than me and older. The only difference is the young ones are quicker at taking out the garbage.

The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.