“Stupid people always ignored good advice”
Johanna Lindsey (1952–2019) American writer
Source: All I Need Is You
“Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.”
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The Portrait of Mr. W. H. (1889), p. 5
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Benito Mussolini (1883–1945) Duce and President of the Council of Ministers of Italy. Leader of the National Fascist Party and subsequen…
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Wilson Mizner (1876–1933) American writer
“I give myself very good advice, but I very seldom follow it.”
Lewis Carroll (1832–1898) English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer
Variant: She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).
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“The smell of good advice always makes Rabbit want to run the other way.”
John Updike book Rabbit at Rest
Rabbit at Rest (1990)