Anna Lee Quotes

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

If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes.

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.

I made so many mistakes when I was younger.

The trouble with experience is that by the time you have it you are too old to take advantage of it.

I've learned so much from all my mistakes. I just wish I had gotten my education.

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

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

I wish I knew what I know now before.

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.

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

We should live and learn; but by the time we've learned, it's too late to live.

We should have taken our chances back then, when we were young and beautiful and didn't even know it.

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.

The errors of young men are the ruin of business, but the errors of aged men amount to this, that more might have been done, or sooner.

Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began.

I used to gamble when I was young. I'm wiser now.

You learn from your mistakes, and I think it's a good thing as long as you learn something.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

I took a lot of wrong decisions, and got talked into a lot of things. Of course, if I could go back in time, I might change some things, but wouldn't everyone? I have no regrets.

We all have things in life we'd do over again.

I don't regret anything, but that doesn't mean that I don't look back and think, 'What was I thinking?'

I remember some of the biggest mistakes I have made really, really well.