Good decisions come from experience. Experience comes from making bad decisions.
It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others.
Experience makes us wise.
Experience is a safe guide.
Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.
Quit smoking in the hope of growing old. It takes a long time to write. People go to books for wisdom and older authors tend to have more of it.
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that; for it is true we may give advice, but we cannot give conduct.
