Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.

Man forgives woman anything save the wit to outwit him.

The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.

The very women who object to the morals of a notoriously beautiful actress, grow big with pride when an admirer suggests their marked resemblance to this stage beauty in physique.

Satiety is a mongrel that barks at the heels of plenty.

Man proposes, woman forecloses.

A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward.

A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.

That one woman is capable of loving another is an historical truth; but never yet lived one who could not listen to her own praises at the expense of her adored friend.

Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.

A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.

To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius.

When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird.

Intuition is truly a feminine quality, but women should not mistake rash conclusions for this gift.

The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Enthusiasms, like stimulants, are often affected by people with small mental ballast.

Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.

To be loved is to be fortunate, but to be hated is to achieve distinction.

There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering.

A kiss is the outward visible sign of an inward fever.

Love often wears a mask in order to test loyalty.

Lovers should never be without the oil of forbearance.

She who boasts of lovers soon has none.

The man who holds the key to a woman's heart should make certain the old ones are destroyed.

Women are angry if other women think too little of their lovers, and furious if they think too much.

Yield nothing to love that is denied to discretion.

A beautiful woman delights the eye a wise woman the understanding a pure one the soul.

Enthusiasms like stimulants are often affected by people with small mental ballast.

Experience is a good teacher but she sends in terrific bills.

The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion the other by it.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

I've danced one time in my life. It was the most mortifying experience I ever had.

The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.

My best film composing experience was with Elia Kazan.

Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.

A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.

By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.

Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.

Well, the hardest thing to do, as we know from our own experience on 9/11 is protect everything all the time.

The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come; if you don't, there's no hope for you.

When I reached adulthood, even now, I could afford to belong to a country club. But I could never belong to a private club because of my experience as a child, because it would isolate me from the whole of humanity.

No one I know of has ever had this experience-where you had to sit and wait and wait for a DNA test to come back just so you can write the last page of the book.

If you live long enough, you'll experience everything.

Actually I'd had a certain amount of experience in Europe in the inter-war period, as a banker, and I was also a member of the Board of Directors of the International Chamber of Commerce.

In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.

Well, I go to the theater today, and its curtain - there is no curtain in this play; the lights go down and go up - and we start. And I live this character for two hours. There are only two of us in the play. And It's a complete experience.

Our job as writers and thinkers in the time is how to bring about the occasions that let people have that first-person experience - or the metaphoric experience that allows them to see human continuity as opposed to total threat, total willingness to do violence.

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.