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

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

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

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.

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.

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

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

This ain't my first rodeo.

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

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


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

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

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

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

(1910 – 1993) editor & novelist

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

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

Adolescence is the best substitute ever invented for experience.

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

(1878 – 1937) humorist, journalist & author

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

Bill Dickey is learning me his experience.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

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