Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes

Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.

If I had it all to do over again, I would do most all things differently. However, how would I know that if, I had not had the opportunity to do them the first time.

In life, we always make the right decisions the second time around, you know?

What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.

The one of the great sadnesses of any life is knowing what you know now and then remembering what you did not know then.

Nobody will use other people's experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.

The lessons of experience are always learned too late.

Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.

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

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

I wish I'd known early what I had to learn late.

We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.

Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to.

And maybe I'm a little smarter now than I was before for all the stupid things I've done.

Ask an older person you respect to tell you his or her greatest regret.

As an individual, I've learnt a lot about life - some things that proved to be helpful and some things I wish I never knew.

I'm older, and I wish that a lot of things that I did in my life, I didn't do, but I'm able to talk about it.

You're 30: You know stuff now. Your 20s were for 'ducking up,' as my auto-correct would say, and learning from those mistakes. (For instance, never again will I convince myself that sleep is for sissies and go straight from a party to the airport. You will not 'sleep on the plane'; you'll vomit in the security line. Go to bed.)

If I’d a knowed more, I would a loved more.

Knowing what I now know I would never have done anything so fatuous; but then I never would have known what I know now had I not.

"I won't apologize for my past. A man is supposed to have experience." "From all indications, you've acquired enough for ten men".

I wish that I knew what I know now, when I was younger. I wish that I knew what I know now, when I was stronger

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

Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.

Experience teaches us, but we scarcely know what.