Experience Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old Experience quotes, Experience sayings, and Experience proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.


All food is fit to eat but not all words are fit to speak.      -- Haitian (on discretion)
Discretion is the better part of valor.      -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Don't spill the beans.      -- unknown
For news of the heart, ask the face.     -- Guinean (on life and living)
Forethought is easy, repentance is hard.      -- Chinese (on discretion)
Give thy thoughts no tongue.      -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Having two ears and one tongue, we should listen twice as much as we speak.      -- Turkish (on discretion)
Least said, soonest mended      -- unknown
Little pitchers have big ears.     -- John Heywood (c.1497-1580)
Nothing is as burdensome as a secret.      -- French Proverb
Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou owest, all thou hast, nor all thou can'st.      -- Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
Silence is sometimes the answer.      -- Estonian (on discretion)
Some things are better left unsaid.      -- unknown
Stones decay, words last.      -- Samoan (on discretion)
The tongue has no bones, yet it breaks bones.      -- Greek (on discretion)
Words should be weighed not counted.      -- Yiddish (on discretion)