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

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

(1894 – 1963) English writer

Adolescence is the best substitute ever invented for experience.

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 is the name every one gives to their mistakes.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

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

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

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

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

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

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

(1910 – 1993) editor & novelist

We learn from experience that men never learn from experience.

(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist

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.

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

(1919 – ) American folk singer

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

Experience: What you get from being inexperienced.

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

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

(1953 – ) comedian, dancer & writer

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

(1861 – 1950) American writer

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

(1926 – ) newspaper columnist

Bill Dickey is learning me his experience.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager