Quotes About Experience

Life Begins at Forty.

Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom.

Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom; youth is the season of credulity.

The atrocious crime of being a young man, which the honorable gentleman [Walpole] has with such spirit and decency charged upon me, I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny; but content myself with wishing that I may be one of those whose follies may cease with their youth, and not of that number who are ignorant in spite of experience.

Faith begins as an experiment and ends as an experience.

Who writes poetry imbibes honey from the poisoned lips of life.

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.

I don't think that anyone outside Paris can understand love and murder as we do. But Emile loves Paris, and loving Paris is a murderous education. ("Anthropology: What Is Lost In Rotation")

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.

The most solid advice for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

Parenting is a learn-as-you-go profession.

Looking back on my life, I wish I'd stepped forward and made a fool of myself more often when I was younger -- because when you do, you find out you can do it.

There is only one thing a writer can write about: what is in front of his senses at the moment of writing.

Sweet are the uses of adversity.

Experience is by industry achieved, and perfected by the swift course of time

Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer.

Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.

At your ageThe heyday in the blood is tame, it's humble.

Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty;For in my youth I never did applyHot and rebellious liquors in my blood.

And so, from hour to hour we ripe and ripe,And then from hour to hour we rot and rot,And thereby hangs a tale.

Paddling palms and pinching fingers.

And when he's old, cashier'd.

There is a history in all men's lives.