Keyword: Experience

Bill Dickey is learning me his experience.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

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

(1894 – 1963) English writer

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

(1908 – 1980) businessman, humorist

We learn from experience that men never learn from experience.

(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist

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

Experience varies directly with equipment ruined.

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

(1910 – 1993) editor & novelist

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

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


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

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

(1919 – ) American folk singer

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

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

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

(1953 – ) comedian, dancer & writer

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

I've been things and seen places.

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

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

(1861 – 1950) American writer

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

Adolescence is the best substitute ever invented for experience.

Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

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

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian