Advice Quotes
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.Marquis de la Grange
To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery.John Churton Collins
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
A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.Anonymous
It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.Anne Tyler, Celestial Navigation, 1974
We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do.Josh Billings
You simply *must* stop taking advice from other people.Melissa Timberman
A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.Joseph Addison
My advice to you is get married if you find a good wife youll be happy if not, youll become a philosopher.Socrates
Whatever your advice, make it brief.Horace
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
Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.W. Somerset Maugham
Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.Aesop
Careful with fire is good advice we know. Careful with words is ten times doubly so.William Carleton
Advice is the only commodity on the market where the supply always exceeds the demand.Author Unknown
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.Gordon R. Dickson
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
For advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.J. R. R. Tolkien
Ask advice only of your equals.Danish Prove
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
One of the advantages of being a captain is being able to ask for advice without necessarily having to take it.William Shatner as Kirk, in "Dagger of the Mind".
The people sensible enough to give good advice are usually sensible enough to give none.Eden Phillpotts
Often sound advice turns out to be totally wrong. Sometimes things turn out in such a way that only a fool would predict. Which is why fools, too, have their place in analysis and debate.Unknown
Never give advice unless asked.German Prove
In giving advice, seek to help, not please, your friend.Solon
Tis the advisor who suffers from bad advice.Anonymous
Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.Richard Milhous Nixon
How is it possible to expect mankind to take advice when they will not so much as take warning.Jonathan Swift
Free advice is worth the price.Robert Half
Advice is like snow - - The softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Successful men follow the same advice they prescribe for others.Author Unknown
To ask for advice is in nine cases out of ten to ask for flattery.John Churton Collins
When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.Al Franken, "Oh, the Things I Know", 2002
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
Stupid people always think they are right. Wise people listen to advice.Proverbs 12: 15
Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts".
