Keyword: Experience

This ain't my first rodeo.

I’m no angel, but I’ve spread my wings a bit.

(1893 – 1980) actress, playwright, screenwriter & sex symbol

Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it.

The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.

(1926 – ) newspaper columnist

Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something.

(1904 – 1999) author, editor, radio host

It's a wise man who profits by his own experience, but it's a good deal wiser one who lets the rattlesnake bite the other fellow.

(1818 – 1885) humorist

Experience is a comb which nature gives us when we are bald.

We all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.

(1910 – 1993) editor & novelist

Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get if you don’t.

(1919 – ) American folk singer

Experience: What you get from being inexperienced.

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

(1908 – 1980) businessman, humorist

Experience is what makes you pause briefly before going ahead and making the same mistake.

fictional mascot and cover boy of Mad, an American humor magazine

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

(1930 – ) American baseball player

I've been things and seen places.

(1893 – 1980) actress, playwright, screenwriter & sex symbol

Experience: A form of knowledge acquired only two ways: by doing and being done.

Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

Amateur: One who is always willing to give you the benefit of his inexperience

Experience : The name men give to their mistakes.

The only problem with learning by experience is that you get the test before the lesson.


It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.