Famous Quotes

"An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience."

Don Marquis 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 Don Marquis

• "Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough."

• "Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever."

• "Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles."

• "Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday."

• "Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates."