Keyword: Experience

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
Age Old TV/Movie Quotes

This ain't my first rodeo.

Miscellaneous

Experience: Something you don’t get until just after you needed it.

Definitions

Experience is a good teacher, but the fees are very high.

(1860 – 1954) English author, Anglican priest, professor & dean
Intelligence

Good judgment comes from experience; experience comes from poor judgment.

Intelligence Murphy’s Laws

When a person with experience meets a person with money, the person with experience will get the money and the person with the money will get some experience.

Money Murphy’s Laws

I've been things and seen places.

(1893 – 1980) actress, playwright, screenwriter & sex symbol
TV/Movie Quotes

Experience varies directly with equipment ruined.

Accidents Murphy’s Laws Problems

We learn from experience that men never learn from experience.

(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist
Education Learning

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

Definitions

Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet
Mistakes Problems

Experience: What causes a person to make new mistakes instead of the same old ones.

Definitions Mistakes

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

(1878 – 1937) humorist, journalist & author
People

Experience: Something you don’t get until just after you needed it.

Definitions

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

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian
Death Intelligence

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

(1919 – ) American folk singer
Education

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

(1926 – ) newspaper columnist
Education Life

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

(1894 – 1963) English writer
History Intelligence

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
Intelligence Wisdom

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

(1930 – ) American baseball player
Education Intelligence

Experience: In the working world, something you can’t get unless you’ve already got it, in which case you probably don’t want any more of it.

(1950 – ) American author, satirist, webmaster & copywriter
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