Quotes about Experience
I suppose sequels are inevitable for a writer of a certain age.
- John Updike
Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.
- Billy Graham
I'm quite surprised I ever got married in the first place.
- Anne Reid
I like old men. They can be wonderful bastards because they have nothing to lose. The only people who can be themselves are babies and old bastards.
- John Updike
Immortality no longer interests the weary old man at all.
- Milan Kundera
The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.
- Oscar Wilde
We flee away from cities, but we bring The best of cities, these learned classifiers, Men knowing what they seek, armed eyes of experts.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man who sees two or three generations is like one who sits in the conjuror's booth at a fair, and sees the same tricks two or three times. They are meant to be seen only once.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Man must suffer to be wise.
- Cicero
Knowledge is to be acquired only by a corresponding experience. How can we know what we are told merely? Each man can interpret another's experience only by his own.
- Henry David Thoreau
If people take any notice of what we say, we say we've been through the drug scene, man, and there's nothing like being straight.
- John Lennon
I did a movie called Marathon Man and it was one of my best memories.
- Dustin Hoffman