Advice Quotes

Unknown - often sound advice turns out to be totally wrong....
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
How is it possible to expect mankind to take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
Jonathan Swift
German prove - never give advice unless asked....
I have had enough experience in all my years, and have read enough of the past, to know that advice to grandchildren is usually wasted.
Harry S Truman
Arab prove - never give advice in a crowd....
Advice is the only commodity on the market where the supply always exceeds the demand.
Author Unknown
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
Whatever your advice, make it brief.
Horace
It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.
Anne Tyler, Celestial Navigation, 1974
Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.
Richard Milhous Nixon
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 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 people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.
Gordon R. Dickson
Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.
Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts".
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
When a thing is done, advice comes too late.
Romanian Prove
Free advice is worth the price.
Robert Half
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
G. K. Chesterton
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
The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.
Oscar Wilde
Stupid people always think they are right. Wise people listen to advice.
Proverbs 12: 15
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
Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.
Aesop
Their plans were improved with the best advice.
J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
The people sensible enough to give good advice are usually sensible enough to give none.
Eden Phillpotts
Whatever advice you give, be brief.
Horace
Some of the best advice I ever received was Man, that was terrible.
Tom Hanks
You simply *must* stop taking advice from other people.
Melissa Timberman
Old people like to give good advice, as solace for no longer being able to provide bad examples.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.
Churton Collins
Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.
W. Somerset Maugham
Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.
W. Somerset Maugham
No one can give you better advice than yourself.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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
I have lived some thirty 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
Advice is least heeded when most needed.
American Prove
It is a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it.
Author Unknown
The art of advice is to make the recipient believe he thought the thought of it himself.
Frank Tyge
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