Freebsd Fortunes 3

Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.
                -- Minna Antrim, "Naked Truth and Veiled Allusions"

Experience is not what happens to you;
it is what you do with what happens to you.
                -- Aldous Huxley

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables
you recognize a mistake when you make it again.
                -- Franklin 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 didn't get what you wanted.

Experience is what you get when you were expecting something else.

Experience, n:
        Something you don't get until just after you need it.
                -- Olivier

Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye,
particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something.
                -- Clifton Fadiman, "Enter Conversing"

Experience varies directly with equipment ruined.