Keyword: Experience (Page 2)

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

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

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

Experience: What you get from being inexperienced.

Definitions

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

Intelligence Murphy’s Laws

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

(1878 – 1937) humorist, journalist & author
People

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

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

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

Definitions

This ain't my first rodeo.

Miscellaneous

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

People

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

(1953 – ) comedian, dancer & writer
Sex

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

(1926 – ) newspaper columnist
Education Life

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

Mistakes Murphy’s Laws Problems

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

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

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

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

(1930 – ) American baseball player
Education Intelligence

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


Education Learning

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