"Experience is what enables you to recognize..." - Quote by Earl Wilson

“This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.”

“Many a standing ovation has been caused by someone jumping to his feet in an effort to beat the rest of the audience to the parking lot.”

“Golf is a lot of walking, broken up by disappointment and bad arithmetic.”

“If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.”

“If Blake said that, said Father Brian, he never lived in Dublin.”

“Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.”

“I have so often been mistaken that I no longer blush for it”

“To undo a mistake is always harder than not to create one originally but we seldom have the foresight. Therefore we have no choice but to try to correct our past mistakes.”

“If you put your foot in it, be sure it's your best foot.”