Advice Quotes

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.

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

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.

Gordon R. Dickson

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

Careful with fire is good advice we know. Careful with words is ten times doubly so.

William Carleton

Time gives good advice.

Maltese Prove

If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity, it would be this Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high. Look it squarely in the eye, and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

Ann Landers

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

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

In the choice of a horse and a wife, a man must please himself, ignoring the opinion and advice of friends.

George John Whyte - Melville

How is it possible to expect mankind to take advice when they will not so much as take warning.

Jonathan Swift

To ask for advice is in nine cases out of ten to ask for flattery.

John Churton Collins

Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble.

Sidney J. Harris

I have lived some thirty - Odd years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.

Henry David Thoreau

Give neither advice nor salt, until you are asked for it.

English Prove

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

My advice to you is get married if you find a good wife youll be happy if not, youll become a philosopher.

Socrates

My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can.

Frank Zappa

All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.

Alexis Carrel

Never have anything to do with an unlucky place, or an unlucky man. I have seen many clever men, very clever men, who had not shoes to their feet. I never act with them. Their advice sounds very well, but they cannot get on themselves; and if they cannot do good to themselves, how can they do good for me?

Rothschild

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.

Samuel Smiles

The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.

Oscar Wilde

Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.

Edna St. Vincent Millay, Letters, 1952

Stupid people always think they are right. Wise people listen to advice.

Proverbs 12: 15

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

W. Somerset Maugham

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.

W. Somerset Maugham

Advice is like snow - - The softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Whatever advice you give, be brief.

Horace

Advice is least heeded when most needed.

American Prove

The people sensible enough to give good advice are usually sensible enough to give none.

Eden Phillpotts

No one wants advice - - Only corroboration.

John Steinbeck

To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.

Churton Collins

Successful men follow the same advice they prescribe for others.

Author Unknown

Old people like to give good advice, as solace for no longer being able to provide bad examples.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.

Marquis de la Grange

Never give advice in a crowd.

Arab Prove