Quotes About Experience

I believe that every English poet should read the English classics, master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them, travel abroad, experience the horror of sordid passion and-if he is lucky enough-know the love of an honest woman.

Adversity is the first path to truth; He who hath proved war, storm, or woman's rage, Whether his winters be eighteen or eighty, Has won the experience which is deemed so weighty.

In an experience of women that extends over many nations and three separate continents, I have never looked upon a face which gave a clearer promise of a refined and sensitive nature.

There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.

If a man talks bad about all women, it usually means he was burned by one woman.

Prince, a precept I'd leave for you, Coined in Eden, existing yet: Skirt the parlor, and shun the zoo, Women and elephants never forget.

The traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his life in trains and restaurants and know nothing of humanity at the end. To know, one must be an actor as well as a spectator.

We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.

I have tried sex with both men and women. I found I liked it.

One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.

There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.

Women are as old as they feel - and men are old when they lose their feelings.

In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs.

The lovely thing about being 40 is that you can appreciate 25 year old men more.

You don't know a women till you've met her in court.

Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing they marry later; for another thing they die earlier.

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.

Things that happened in your life where meant to happen, to make you who you are. We all have our purpose and destiny in this life. And although some things may seem like mistakes or accidents, soon you will realize that they had to happen so that you can be where you need to be.

The quality and beauty of a life depends on the meanings and definations that are added to it daily.

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better than book or orator.

The only reward for love is the experience of loving.

This is the true measure of love: When we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us

It's better to have loved and lost than to do forty pounds of laundry a week.

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.