Quotes about Experience

A young dame with pretty eyes and a smile can make an old man do just about anything.

You learn in this war if you listen.

I pointed to the canvas where the rain was making the finest sound that we, who live much outside of houses, ever hear.

That's all we do, isn't it—look at things and try new drinks?

You saw fear and apprehension. The fear was made by what he had been through. The apprehension was for the possibility of evil he imagined.

It was hot, but the town had a cool, fresh, early-morning smell and it was pleasant sitting in the café.

I suppose it is possible to live as full a life in seventy hours as on seventy years; granted that your life has been full up to the time that the seventy hours start and that you have reached a certain age.

He's written about all the things he knows, and now he's on all the things he doesn't know

I think you have more fun as a human being even though it is much more painful.

YOU DO NOT know how long you are in a river when the current moves swiftly.

There is never any ending to Paris and the memory of each person who has lived in it differs from that of any other. We always returned to it no matter who we were nor how it was changed nor with what difficulties nor what ease it could be reached. It was always worth it and we received a return for whatever we brought to it.

We're no kin, Thomas Hudson said. We just used to live in the same town and make some of the same mistakes.