Keyword: Experience

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

Definitions Mistakes

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

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

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

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

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


Education Learning

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

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

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

(1926 – ) newspaper columnist
Education Life

Bill Dickey is learning me his experience.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager
Yogi-isms

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

(1953 – ) comedian, dancer & writer
Sex

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

I've been things and seen places.

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

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

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

(1919 – ) American folk singer
Education

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

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

Beliefs Life Proverbs

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

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

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

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