Quotes about Experience
Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.
- Mark Twain
I have been born more times than anybody except Krishna.
- Mark Twain
I always say, keep a diary and someday it'll keep you.
- Mae West
Old age hath yet his honour and his toil.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
All historical experience demonstrates the following: Our earth cannot be changed unless in the not too distant future an alteration in the consciousness of individuals is achieved.
- Hans Kung
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
- Victor Hugo
As I give thought to the matter, I find four causes for the apparent misery of old age; first it withdraws us from active accomplishments; second, it renders the body less powerful; third, it deprives us of almost all forms of enjoyment; fourth, it
- Cicero
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
- CS Lewis
It is not well to make great changes in old age.
- Charles Spurgeon
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Most adults have forgotten what they had to do to survive childhood.
- Mark Vonnegut
I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances. a
- Martha Washington