Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia. Dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it’s worth.

Mary Schmich (b. 1953) American newspaper columnist

“Advice, Like Youth, Probably Just Wasted on the Young,” Chicago Tribune (1 Jul 1997)