Quotable Quotes (19 page)

—
G
ENE
H
ILL

in
Field & Stream

 

Believe one who has tried it.

—
V
IRGIL

 

Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.

—
C
LARENCE
D
AY

The Crow's Nest

 

Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches.

—
P
ROVERB

 

A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.

—
H
ERB
C
AEN

 

The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.

—
S
IR
W
ILLIAM
O
SLER

 

One thing about experience is that when you don't have very much you're apt to get a lot.

—
F
RANKLIN
P
.
J
ONES

in
Quote

 

Experience is a wonderful thing; it enables you to recognize a mistake every time you repeat it.

—The Associated Press

 

We learn to walk by stumbling.

—
B
ULGARIAN PROVERB

 

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

—
M
ARK
T
WAIN

 

People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they learned the day before was wrong.

—
B
ILL
V
AUGHAN

 

Just when you think you've graduated from the school of experience, someone thinks up a new course.

—
M
ARY
H
.
W
ALDRIP

 

Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.

—
D
AN
S
TANFORD

 

Anybody who profits from the experience of others probably writes biographies.

—
F
RANKLIN
P
.
J
ONES

 

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

—
A
BIGAIL
V
AN
B
UREN

 

Half, maybe more, of the delight of experiencing is to know what you are experiencing.

—
J
ESSAMYN
W
EST

Hide and Seek

 

Perhaps the angels who fear to tread where fools rush in used to be fools who rushed in.

—
F
RANKLIN
P
.
J
ONES

 

H
E WHO HESITATES 
. . .

 

He who hesitates is last.

—
The Wit and Wisdom of Mae West

edited by Joseph Weintraub

 

He who hesitates is sometimes saved.

—
J
AMES
T
HURBER

Fables for Our Time

 

These things are good in little measure and evil in large: yeast, salt and hesitation.

—
The Talmud

 

The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides.

—
H
ENRI
F
RÉDÉRIC
A
MIEL

 

A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.

—
J
OHN
H
ENRY
C
ARDINAL
N
EWMAN

 

It's better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late.

—
M
ARILYN
M
OATS
K
ENNEDY

Across the Board

 

If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.

—
D
AN
R
ATHER WITH
P
ETER
W
YDEN

I Remember

 

Decision is a sharp knife that cuts clean and straight. Indecision is a dull one that hacks and tears and leaves ragged edges behind.

—
J
AN
M
C
K
EITHEN

 

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

—
A
LFRED
A
DLER

 

You have to be careful about being too careful.

—
B
ERYL
P
FIZER

 

If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.

—
L
ARRY
M
C
M
URTRY

Some Can Whistle

 

If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it.

—
P
AM
S
HAW

 

To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.

—
E
VA
Y
OUNG

 

When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.

—
W
ILLIAM
J
AMES

 

Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping.

—
J
ULIUS
C
HARLES
H
ARE AND
A
UGUSTUS
W
ILLIAM
H
ARE

 

Give me the benefit of your convictions, if you have any; but keep your doubts to yourself, for I have enough of my own.

—
J
OHANN
W
OLFGANG VON
G
OETHE

 

Throughout history, the most common debilitating human ailment has been cold feet.

—
Country

 

Calculation never made a hero.

—
J
OHN
H
ENRY
C
ARDINAL
N
EWMAN

 

He who hesitates is interrupted.

—
F
RANKLIN
P
.
J
ONES

 

I
F YOU CAN'T MAKE A MISTAKE 
. . .

 

If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything.

—
M
ARVA
N
.
C
OLLINS

 

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

—
B
ABE
R
UTH

 

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually to be fearing you will make one.

—
E
LBERT
H
UBBARD

 

A stumble may prevent a fall.

—
E
NGLISH PROVERB

 

He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

—
S
AMUEL
S
MILES

 

A mistake proves that someone stopped talking long enough to do something.

—
P
HOENIX
F
LAME

 

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

—
P
HYLLIS
T
HEROUX

Night Lights

 

Better to ask twice than to lose your way once.

—
D
ANISH PROVERB

 

We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones.

—
A
NDREW
A
.
R
OONEY

Not That You Asked . . .

 

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

—
D
OUG
L
ARSON

 

Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them.

—
A
NDREW
V
.
M
ASON,
MD

 

There is no saint without a past—no sinner without a future.

—
A
NCIENT
P
ERSIAN
M
ASS

 

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.

—
G
EORGE
S
OROS

Soros on Soros

 

One of the most dangerous forms of human error is forgetting what one is trying to achieve.

—
P
AUL
N
ITZE

 

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

—
J
ESSAMYN
W
EST

 

The worst part is not in making a mistake but in trying to justify it, instead of using it as a heaven-sent warning of our mindlessness or our ignorance.

—
S
ANTIAGO
R
AMÓN Y
C
AJAL

Charlas de Cafe

 

Always acknowledge a fault frankly. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you opportunity to commit more.

—
M
ARK
T
WAIN

 

To obtain maximum attention, it's hard to beat a good, big mistake.

—
D
AVID
D
.
H
EWITT

 

Justifying a fault doubles it.

—
F
RENCH PROVERB

 

Your worst humiliation is only someone else's momentary entertainment.

—
K
AREN
C
ROCKETT

 

He who is afraid to ask is ashamed of learning.

—
D
ANISH PROVERB

 

The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others.

—
D
OUG
L
ARSON

 

Nine times out of ten, the first thing a man's companion knows of his shortcomings is from his apology.

—
O
LIVER
W
ENDELL
H
OLMES
S
R.

 

If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.

—
J
OHN
K
ENNETH
G
ALBRAITH

Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went

 

I'
D RATHER BE A FAILURE 
. . .

 

I'd rather be a failure at something I enjoy than be a success at something I hate.

—
G
EORGE
B
URNS

 

You never conquer a mountain. You stand on the summit a few moments; then the wind blows your footprints away.

—
A
RLENE
B
LUM

 

Victory is in the quality of competition, not the final score.

—
M
IKE
M
ARSHALL

 

Laurels don't make much of a cushion.

—
D
OROTHY
R
ABINOWITZ

 

Success covers a multitude of blunders.

—
B
ERNARD
S
HAW

 

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

—
T
RUMAN
C
APOTE

 

Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they're really not. They're companions—the hero and the sidekick.

—
L
AURENCE
S
HAMES

 

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

—
E
RMA
B
OMBECK

 

The hero reveals the possibilities of human nature; the celebrity reveals the possibilities of the media.

—
D
ANIEL
J
.
B
OORSTIN

The Image

 

Oh, the difference between nearly right and exactly right.

—
H
ORACE
J
.
B
ROWN

 

Success is never final, but failure can be.

—
B
ILL
P
ARCELLS

Finding a Way to Win

 

I couldn't wait for success . . . so I went ahead without it.

—
J
ONATHAN
W
INTERS

 

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.

—
F
RANCIS
B
ACON

 

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.