Experience

If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new

You never fail until you stop trying

Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait

Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience

A grave is a place where the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical student

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen

He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time

Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert

You can find out more about someone in an hours play than during a year of discussing

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack

I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today

The value of life ist not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them; a man may live long yet very little

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was

Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much

Experience is not enough in itself - it has to be weighed, ordered and digested, and we have to draw the right conclusions from it

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age 18

We pity in others only those evils which we have ourselves experienced