Famous Quotes

"Reading the play at home, however fulfilling, can never be the vivacious experience that Shakespeare intended."

Arthur Smith on Experience

More quotes about Experience

• "Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards."

  Soren Kierkegaard on Experience

• "The only source of knowledge is experience."

  Albert Einstein on Experience

• "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn."

  C. S. Lewis on Experience

• "Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes."

  Oscar Wilde on Experience

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

  Mark Twain on Experience

More quotes by Arthur Smith

• "I am 54 and age is slowly writing itself on my face."

• "It was Julie Burchill who decreed that, beyond a certain age, a man should not be seen in a leather jacket."

• "It is more interesting to be compared to someone famous, because it lets you gauge what perceptions people have about your appearance."

• "Ninety-eight per cent of laughter is nothing to do with jokes, which do not deserve to bear the weight of all the funny stuff in the world."

• "The history of the relationship between comedy and swimming is short indeed. Of course it is always funny when someone falls into water, but that's about it."