English Proverb or Saying Quotes

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

Experience is never at bargain price.

It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.

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

I wish I knew what I know now before.

I made so many mistakes when I was younger.

Prudence, like experience, must be paid for.

Age is a hell of a price to pay for wisdom.

You know, by the time you reach my age, you've made plenty of mistakes if you've lived your life properly.

I learned from my past.

Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it.

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.

The fool knows after he's suffered.

Regret is pointless. I never do anything without first deciding to do it based on facts and feelings, and if it doesn't work out how I hoped, oh well - there's another notch on my experience belt.

People always ask me, 'What is it that you regret?' And I say, 'nothing, because I could not buy what I've learned.' And I apply those things to my life I learn. And hopefully, hopefully it helps me to be a better human in the future and make better choices.

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

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

Experience is a great teacher.

No man is ever old enough to know better.

I've made a lot of mistakes and I don't regret any of them. Sometimes that's the only way you learn.

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.

I firmly believe that you live and learn, and if you don't learn from past mistakes, then you need to be drug out and shot.

Oh, if I had only known then what I know now, I would have stopped it last year when I was still young.