Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Erfahrung – das ist der Name, dem ein jeder seinen Fehlern gibt.

Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

That is one of the great secrets of life Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

If a woman cannot make her mistakes charming, she is only a female.