Quotes about Experience

That she had grown older? Would he say that, or would she see him thinking when he came back, that she had grown older?

What she liked was simply life. 'That's what I do it for', she said, speaking aloud, to life.

The highest dream we could ever dream, the wish that if granted would make us happier than any other blessing, is to know God, to actually experience Him. The problem is that we don't believe this idea is true. We assent to it in our heads. But we don't feel it in our hearts.

An English man does not travel to see English men.

I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba and cry, 'Tis all barren!

"Our armies swore terribly in Flanders," cried my uncle Toby—"but nothing to this."

There's no such thing is aging, but maturing and knowledge. It's beautiful, I call that beauty.

"It wasn't the wine," murmured Mr. Snodgrass, in a broken voice. "It was the salmon."

Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years it was a splendid laugh!

You are too young to know how the world changes everyday,' said Mrs Creakle, 'and how the people in it pass away. But we all have to learn it, David; some of us when we are young, some of us when we are old, some of us at all times in our lives.

I am not old, but my young way was never the way to age.

Are you thankful for not being young?' 'Yes, sir. If I was young, it would all have to be gone through again, and the end would be a weary way off, don't you see?...