Keyword: Experience (Page 2)

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

(1908 – 1980) businessman, humorist

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what man does with what happens to him.

(1894 – 1963) English writer

Bill Dickey is learning me his experience.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

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

(1926 – ) newspaper columnist

Experience : The name men give to their mistakes.

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

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

(1919 – ) American folk singer

An optimist is a man who has never had much experience.

(1878 – 1937) humorist, journalist & author

Experience is what you get when you don’t get what you wanted.

(1918 – 2002) advice columnist

Barney: I think of you as experienced. In an emergency, you would be the first one that I’d call.
Fish: You should call me first. I need time to put my teeth in.

(1921 – ) American actor

We learn from experience that men never learn from experience.

(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist

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

(1910 – 1993) editor & novelist

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

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

All men look at Dr. Ruth and wonder how she has gained all that sexual experience.

(1953 – ) comedian, dancer & writer

Experience: The name an older man gives to his mistakes.

Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

Education is what you get from reading the small print. Experience is what you get from not reading it.

Adolescence is the best substitute ever invented for experience.