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Thou shalt know by experience how salt the savor is of other's
bread, and how sad a path it read more
Thou shalt know by experience how salt the savor is of other's
bread, and how sad a path it is to climb and descend another's
stairs.
[It., Tu proverai si come sa di sale
Lo pane altrui, e com e duro calle
Lo scendere e'l salir per l'altrui scale.]
Only so much do I know, as I have lived.
Only so much do I know, as I have lived.
Oh, who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried?
Oh, who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried?
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
Trouble brings experience, and experience brings wisdom.
Trouble brings experience, and experience brings wisdom.
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.
Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
