From The Mary Frances Knitting and Crocheting Book, or Adventures Among the Knitting People by Jane Eayre Fryer and illustrated by Jane Allen Boyer, 1918.

"Advice from a caterpillar."  From State Teacher's College, Farmville, Virginia's 1932 yearbook.

They're being facetious here, but it's common advice.  From Lighted Pathway, 1981.

From Lighted Pathway, 1981.

"Have a good time!"  From Lighted Pathway, 1972.

"Be grateful that you do not know everything."  From Lighted Pathway, 1972.

From Lighted Pathway, 1972.

"Read too little or too much.  Whichever will leave you most confused or asleep."  From Lighted Pathway, 1981.

From Lighted Pathway, 1975.

From the Wartburg Trumpet, 1969.

Except for the so-called "modern" variety, "don't be afraid of art!"  From Together, 1959.

From Lighted Pathway, 1967.

From Bluff Your Way In Poetry by Nick Yapp, 1989.  (However, we don't say we've spent three days and nights reading The New Apocalyptics.  Rather, we say -- truthfully -- that we've been reading The Tibetan Book of the Dead.)

"Don't lie to your wife."  From Indiana University's 1923 yearbook.

Confession -- we, too, use "thee's" and "thou's" to deaden the buzz of living conversation.  From Lighted Pathway, 1981.

Advice like this is so rare -- "Take the banana and cigar away from him, if they make you feel worse than you did before seeing him, but don't wish him dead."  From Illustrated World, 1922.

It's simple, timeless advice -- get a better hobby.  From Dark Shadows episode 798.

"Don't be jealous!"  From The Film Daily, 1926.

From The Link, 1974.

Here's very important advice on how donning a banana costume, sitting in hot tubs, and not wearing sweatpants in public can save you from being a colossal failure.  From The Gateway, 2014.