“Most men give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.”
Reported in Raphael Lewin, Ed., The New Era (1872), Volume 2, p. 315.
Misattributed
Source: William R(ounseville) Alger, American clergyman and writer [1822-1905]; reported in Raphael Lewin, Ed., The New Era (1872), Volume 2, p. 315.
“Most men give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.”
Reported in Raphael Lewin, Ed., The New Era (1872), Volume 2, p. 315.
“The world's most funniest and easiest thing is to give an advice…”
Trial of Dewhurst and others (1820), 1 St. Tr. (N. S.) 607.
“I give myself sometimes admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.”
“and if I have any advice to give to anybody it’s this: take up watercolor painting.”
Source: Notes of a Dirty Old Man