Quotes about Experience
The finished man of the world must eat of every apple once.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In every man's memory, with the hours when life culminated are usually associated certain books which met his views.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Poets like Shakespeare know more about poetry than any $25 an hour man.
- Robert Frost
The civilized man is a more experienced and wiser savage.
- Henry David Thoreau
I fear that he who walks over these fields a century hence will not know the pleasure of knocking off wild apples. Ah, poor man, there are many pleasures which he will not know!
- Henry David Thoreau
In my short experience of human life, the outward obstacles, if there were any such, have not been living men, but the institutions of the dead.
- Henry David Thoreau
In childhood, death stirred me not; in middle age, it pursued me like a prowling bandit on the road; now, grown an old man, it boldly leads the way, and ushers me on.
- Herman Melville
I have a history with charismatic, attractive men who just wear me out.
- Hillary Clinton
Seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books.
- John Milton
There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't.
- John Updike
Money comes, money goes. But your story stays with you the rest of your life.
- Andy Stanley
There were a lot of great things you could go and hear for very little money at the time [ '80s]. Mike Stern is still playing at the 55 Bar on Mondays or Wednesdays.
- Jon Gordon