Advice Quotes
Those who try to give us advice on matters of human rights do nothing but provoke an ironic smile among us. We will not permit anyone to interfere in our affairs.Konstantin Chernenko
Advice is like snow the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble.Sidney J. Harris
The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.Hannah Whitall Smith, 1902
I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.Harry S Truman
The people sensible enough to give good advice are usually sensible enough to give none.Eden Phillpotts
To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery.John Churton Collins
Their plans were improved with the best advice.J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise.J. R. R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.
Advice is least heeded when most needed.American Prove
How is it possible to expect mankind to take advice when they will not so much as take warning.Jonathan Swift
I agree with every word you write, and I can prove this in no better way than by taking your advice from beginning to end.Ellen Glasgow
Some of the best advice I ever received was Man, that was terrible.Tom Hanks
The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.Oliver Wendell Holmes
To ask for advice is in nine cases out of ten to ask for flattery.John Churton Collins
All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.Alexis Carrel
If you achieve success, you will get applause, and if you get applause, you will hear it. My advice to you concerning applause is this enjoy it but never quite believe it.Robert Montgomery
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into, the mind.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
People who ask our advice almost never take it. Yet we should never refuse to give it, upon request, for it often helps us to see our own way more clearly.Brendan Francis
It is a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it.Author Unknown
Never give advice unless asked.German Prove
There is one piece of advice, in a life of study, which I think no one will object to and that is, every now and then to be completely idle - To do nothing at all.Sydney Smith
If you achieve success, you will get applause, and if you get applause, you will hear it. My advice to you concerning applause is this; enjoy it but never quite believe it.Robert Montgomery
You simply *must* stop taking advice from other people.Melissa Timberman
Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.Robert Lynd
Whatever your advice, make it brief.Horace
Successful men follow the same advice they prescribe for others.Author Unknown
Advice is judged by results, not by intentions.Cicero
Ask advice only of your equals.Danish Prove
Time gives good advice.Maltese Prove
I give myself, sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.Mary Montagu
Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.Richard Milhous Nixon
My advice to you is get married if you find a good wife youll be happy if not, youll become a philosopher.Socrates
The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve; we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right or wrong.Pierre Charron
The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others.Anonymous
Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.Edna St. Vincent Millay, Letters, 1952
