Keyword: Experience

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

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

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

(1919 – ) American folk singer
Education

Experience: In the working world, something you can’t get unless you’ve already got it, in which case you probably don’t want any more of it.

(1950 – ) American author, satirist, webmaster & copywriter
Definitions

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


Education Learning

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

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

(1878 – 1937) humorist, journalist & author
People

Experience : The name men give to their mistakes.

Definitions Mistakes

Experience: What you get from being inexperienced.

Definitions

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

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

Mistakes Murphy’s Laws Problems

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

Intelligence Proverbs Wisdom

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

(1926 – ) newspaper columnist
Education Life

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

(1910 – 1993) editor & novelist
Education Learning Life School

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

Communication Education Murphy’s Laws

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

Definitions Mistakes

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

(1930 – ) American baseball player
Education Intelligence

We learn from experience that men never learn from experience.

(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist
Education Learning

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

Beliefs Life Proverbs

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