Keyword: Experience

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
Animals Intelligence Wisdom

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

People

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

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

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

Communication Education Murphy’s Laws

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

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

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

Mistakes Murphy’s Laws Problems

Experience: What you get from being inexperienced.

Definitions

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

Beliefs Life Proverbs

This ain't my first rodeo.

Miscellaneous

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

Definitions Mistakes

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

Definitions

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

(1908 – 1980) businessman, humorist
Mistakes Problems

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
Mistakes Problems Situations Time

Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.

(1861 – 1950) American writer
Money Time

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

Definitions

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

(1953 – ) comedian, dancer & writer
Sex

I'm an experienced woman. I've been around… Well, all right, I might not've been around, but I've been… nearby.

(1936 – 2017) American actress
TV/Movie Quotes

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

Definitions

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

Definitions Mistakes