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Quotes About Experience

There is no time like the old time, when you and I were young!
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
Loving a sister is an unconditional narcissistic and complicated devotion that approximates a Mother's love. Sisters are inescapably connected, shaped by the same two parents, the same trove of memory and experience.
~ Unknown
Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
~ Samuel Johnson
I know they say that first love is the sweetest, but that first cut is the deepest.
~ Drake
New love is so beautiful, time just makes it ugly.
~ Wale
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge - myth is more potent than history - dreams are more powerful than facts - hope always triumphs over experience - laughter is the cure for grief - love is stronger than death
~ Robert Fulghum
A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.
~ Washington Irving
Physical pleasure is a sensual experience no different from pure seeing or the pure sensation with which a fine fruit fills the tongue; it is a great unending experience, which is given us, a knowing of the world, the fullness and the glory of all knowing. And not our acceptance of it is bad; the bad thing is that most people misuse and squander this experience and apply it as a stimulant at the tired spots of their lives and as distraction instead of a rallying toward exalted moments.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable.
~ Arnold Bennett
In love, the past is not important, but the present. Experience is more relevant than the pain you went through. The only thing that will make it stronger is forgiveness and not the retorting of sin.
~ Anonymous
Love is just a number and maturaity is just a level
~ Unknown
Fame is fickle and I know it. It has its compensations, but it also has its drawbacks and I've experienced them both.
~ Marilyn Monroe
When a man of forty falls in love with a woman of twenty, it isn't her youth he is seeking but his own.
~ Lenore Coffee
We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.
~ Du Coeur
I've never been in love. I've always been a lawyer.
~ Proverb
I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards.
~ Rudyard Kipling
Gee, I never thought I had an effect on people until I was in Korea.
~ Marilyn Monroe
I learned to walk as a baby and I haven't had a lesson since.
~ Marilyn Monroe
Love is the history of a woman's life; it is an episode in man's.
~ Germaine de Staël
Who says love never lives? Maybe we've never lived.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Experience is that marvellous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
~ Franklin P Jones
There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
~ Francois La Rochefoucauld
We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
~ George John Whyte-Melville
God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction
~ Richard Cecil