Archive for the ‘Experience’ Category

Andre Gide on Experience

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.

- Andre Gide

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Oscar Wilde on Experience

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing.

- Oscar Wilde

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Oscar Wilde on Experience

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

- Oscar Wilde

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Auguste Rodin on Experience

Thursday, January 10th, 2008

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.

- Auguste Rodin

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Mark Twain on Experience

Friday, August 24th, 2007

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

- Mark Twain

Ralph Waldo Emerson on Experience

Tuesday, June 12th, 2007

The years teach much which the days never knew.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Abigail Van Buren on Experience

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007

If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we’d all be millionaires.

- Abigail Van Buren

Rita Mae Brown on Experience

Tuesday, March 27th, 2007

Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.

- Rita Mae Brown

Stephen King on Experience

Thursday, February 22nd, 2007

You couldn’t get hold of the things you’d done and turn them right again. Such a power might be given to the gods, but it was not given to women and men, and that was probably a good thing. Had it been otherwise, people would probably die of old age still trying to rewrite their teens.

- Stephen King

Josh Billings on Experience

Saturday, August 12th, 2006

There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.

- Josh Billings