Quotes About Experience

We come late, if at all, to wine and philosophy: whiskey and action are easier.

In life, as in restaurants, we swallow a lot of indigestible stuff just because it comes with the dinner.

Few of us write great novels; all of us live them.

Mumps, measles, and puppy love are terrible after twenty.

Hot dogs always seem better out than at home; so do French-fried potatoes; so do your children.

Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had

With each passing year, one has less to say, and knows better how to say it.

The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone.

However life treats you, as time goes by you always get the feeling you've lost life in the very living of it.

El que regresa de un entierro, como el que sale de una pesadilla, experimenta el mismo bienestar.

qué más quisiera uno que irse sin conocer la vida!...

Si en el primer instante sintió vaciarse sus pupilas para abarcar la inmensidad, ahora la inmensidad se las llenaba. Era el regreso de la marea hasta sus ojos.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating. By a small sample we may judge of the whole piece.

Journey over all the universe in a map, without the expense and fatigue of traveling, without suffering the inconveniences of heat, cold, hunger, and thirst.

The very remembrance of my former misfortune proves a new one to me.

I don't know that ever I saw one in my born days.

I believe there's no proverb but what is true they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.

There are but few proverbial sayings that are not true, for they are all drawn from experience itself, which is the mother of all sciences.

'Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.

Short sentences drawn from long experience.

Experience, the universal Mother of Sciences.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

Ne'er look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.

A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.