Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.
-- Olivier
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a mistake when
you make it again.
-- F. P. Jones
Experience is the worst teacher. It always gives the test first and the
instruction afterward.
Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones.
Experience is what you get when you were expecting something else.
Experience varies directly with equipment ruined.
Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.
Poor Richard's Almanac
Nothing ever becomes real until it is experienced.
-- John Keats
Experience is the worst teacher. It always gives the test first and the
instruction afterward.
