A Quote by Josh Billings

Advice maybe wrong, but examples prove themselves.

Josh Billings

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Advice Examples Maybe Prove Themselves Wrong

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Josh Billings
American - Comedian
April 21, 1818 - October 14, 1885

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

Josh Billings

Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Advice is like mushrooms. The wrong kind can prove fatal.

Charles E. McKenzie

The moment the world declares a person to be immortal, at that moment the person will strive to prove the world wrong. In the face of glowing press releases and reviews the most heralded women starve themselves or cut themselves or poison themselves. Or they find a man who's happy to do that for him.

Chuck Palahniuk

Maybe I was being too picky. Maybe I didn't want to be close to anyone. Maybe I'd just be the type who couldn't feel love all the way or something. I couldn't tell what was wrong, but what was wrong was that it just wasn't right.

Deb Caletti

My best advice came by examples. A supportive environment at home, school, and grad school. Support at the New York Institute of Technology, then George Lucas, Steve Jobs, and Bob Iger. The examples meant that I should support other people, even when things aren't going well. It will pay off.

Edwin Catmull

I'm always someone who wants to strive to prove someone wrong or show something that maybe they haven't seen.

Mason Mount

Maybe I think too highly of myself, but I think maybe sometimes I can give some good advice - sometimes bad advice, I'm sure - and I think that's a way of giving back.

Taavet Hinrikus

But if thought is to become the possession of many, not the privilege of the few, we must have done with fear. It is fear that holds men back - fear lest their cherished beliefs should prove delusions, fear lest the institutions by which they live should prove harmful, fear lest they themselves should prove less worthy of respect than they have supposed themselves to be.

Bertrand Russell

Someone can have the best intentions,' Markov said, 'but offering the wrong advice, the wrong help at the wrong time, can be worse than not helping at all.