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.

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

There is no gambling like politics.

You have to be practical. So every time I say, if you want to write a novel you have to be practical, people get bored. They are disappointed. They are expecting a more dynamic, creative, artistic thing to say. What I want to say is: you have to be practical.

He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

There are people who want to make men’s lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.

It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one’s life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than ‚try to be a little kinder.‘

Don’t run if you can walk. Don’t walk if you can stand. Don’t stand if you can sit. Don’t sit if you can lie down.

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it’s best to let him run.

Every time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow.

My son complains about headaches. I tell him all the time, when you get out of bed, it’s feet first!

The advice I’ve been giving to people all my life – that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you; you can’t give up politics, it won’t give you up – was the advice I should have been taking myself.

Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.

It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend’s folly.

Common sense is not so common.

Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

Older and wiser voices can help you find the right path, if you are only willing to listen.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another’s money. Idiots!

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

I played a lot of tough clubs in my time. Once a guy in one of those clubs wanted to bet me $10 that I was dead. I was afraid to bet.

March is a month without mercy for rabid basketball fans. There is no such thing as a ‚gentleman gambler‘ when the Big Dance rolls around. All sheep will be fleeced, all fools will be punished severely… There are no Rules when the deal goes down in the final weeks of March. Even your good friends will turn into monsters.

We can never learn too much of His will towards us, too much of His messages and His advice. The Bible is His word and its study gives at once the foundation for our faith and an inspiration to battle onward in the fight against the tempter.

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.

He that won’t be counseled can’t be helped.

There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.

As president, you can get all kinds of advice from all kinds of people. But at the end of the day, when it comes time to make that decision, as president, all you have to guide you are your values and your vision and the life experiences that make you who you are.

You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.

Gambling can turn into a dangerous two-way street when you least expect it. Weird things happen suddenly, and your life can go all to pieces.

I haven’t gone out of my way to seek advice from people I don’t know.

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.

I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

The horse I bet on was so slow, the jockey kept a diary of the trip.

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

Counsel with your parents is a privilege at any age.

My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn’t prevent you doing well, and don’t regret the things it interferes with. Don’t be disabled in spirit as well as physically.

I give opinions, not advice.

I have an expression I use as I’ve gone around the world through my career: ‚You never tell another man or woman what’s in their interest. They know their interest better than you know their interest.‘

Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

The secret to a long marriage is to stay gone.

I remember talking with Arcade Fire after their first record, when they were getting all kinds of offers from major labels, and I don’t think I gave them any advice. They survived that whole onslaught pretty well anyway without me.

Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.

I don’t like to give advice. I like to give people information because everyone’s life is different, and everyone’s journey is different.

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

Never put your money against Cassius Clay, for you will never have a lucky day.

General consultant to mankind.

Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

I’m no hillbilly singer.

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, ‚always do what you are afraid to do.‘

I will say this: one of the things that is a pain when you’re expecting children is how much advice unsolicited people give you when you’re not asking for it.

If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.

Pride deafens us to the advice or warnings of those around us.

Next time I see you, remind me not to talk to you.

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.