Keyword: Experience (Page 2)

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

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


Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

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

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

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

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

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

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

(1930 – ) American baseball player

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.

We learn from experience that men never learn from experience.

(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist

Adolescence is the best substitute ever invented for 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

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

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

(1953 – ) comedian, dancer & writer

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

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

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

(1861 – 1950) American writer

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

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