Keyword: Experience

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

(1930 – ) American baseball player

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

(1894 – 1963) English writer

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

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


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

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.

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

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

I've been things and seen places.

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

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

Adolescence is the best substitute ever invented for experience.

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

(1908 – 1980) businessman, humorist

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

(1919 – ) American folk singer

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

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

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

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

Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

Experience varies directly with equipment ruined.

Experience : The name men give to their mistakes.

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

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

(1926 – ) newspaper columnist

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