Josh Billings Advice Quotations

We hate those who will not take our advice and despise those who do

When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him.

What the world wants iz [sic] good examples, not so mutch advice; advice may be wrong, but examples prove themselves.

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.

Advice maybe wrong, but examples prove themselves.

Advice can be like cod liver oil, easy enough to administer but not so pleasant to take for anybody.

We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do.

Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.