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Advice Quotes - Page 33

I will never again attempt to tell any young person what to do - the really gifted don't need advice and the others can't take it.

Katherine Anne Porter, Joan Givner (1987). “Katherine Anne Porter: Conversations”, p.119, Univ. Press of Mississippi

I never had a man come to me for advice yet, but what I soon discovered that he thought more of his own opinion than he did of mine.

Josh Billings (1913). “Wit and Wisdom of Josh Billings [pseud.]: Choice Bits of Fun and Philosophy of the Great Humorist Carefully Collected and Revised”

I forget whether advice be among the lost things which Ariosto says are to be found in the moon: that and time ought to have been there.

Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott (1814). “The Works of Jonathan Swift: Miscellaneous essays”, p.432

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery.

In L. C. Collins Life of John Churton Collins (1912) p. 316

Remember this, folks - I am a Hillbilly, and I don't always Bet the same way I talk. Good advice is one thing, but smart gambling is quite another.

Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.62, Pan Macmillan