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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 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"

Fame may be fleeting but obscurity is forever.

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it
every six months.
                -- Oscar Wilde

Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.
                -- Victor Hugo

Fess:   Well, you must admit there is something innately humorous about
        a man chasing an invention of his own halfway across the galaxy.
Rod:    Oh yeah, it's a million yuks, sure.  But after all, isn't that the
        basic difference between robots and humans?
Fess:   What, the ability to form imaginary constructs?
Rod:    No, the ability to get hung up on them.
                -- Christopher Stasheff, "The Warlock in Spite of Himself"

Flattery is like cologne -- to be smelled, but not swallowed.
                -- Josh Billings

For an idea to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be
always old-fashioned.