Your friends praise your abilities to the skies, submit to you in argument, and seem to have the greatest deference for you; but, though they may ask it, you never find them following your advice upon their own affairs; nor allowing you to manage your own, without thinking that you should follow theirs. Thus, in fact, they all think themselves wiser than you, whatever they may say.

Melbourne, Lord

16.

Where no counsel is, the people fall; but in the multitude of counselors there is safety. [Proverbs 11:14]

Bible

17.

Consult. To seek another's approval of a course already decided on.

Bierce, Ambrose

18.

Some of these people need ten years of therapy --ten sentences of mine do not equal ten years of therapy.

Zaslow, Jeff

19.

A fool think he needs no advice, but a wise man listens to others. [Proverbs 12:15]

Bible

20.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married. Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. He that has no children brings them up well.

Proverb, Spanish

21.

It seems that bad advice that's fun will always be better known than than good advice that's dull-no matter how useless that fun advice is.

Scott Berkun

22.

Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance.

I Ching

23.

We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.

Alger, William R.

24.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

25.

The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.

Johnson, Samuel

26.

These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

27.

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.

Thoreau, Henry David

28.

Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.

Franklin, Benjamin

29.

Advice is like castor oil, easy to give, but dreadful to take.

Billings, Josh

30.

I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

31.

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

32.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

33.

To advise is easier than to help.

Proverb, German

34.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

35.

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

36.

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.

Bacon, Francis

37.

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

Oscar Wilde

38.

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

Sidney J. Harris

39.

To offer a man unsolicited advice is to presume that he doesn't know what to do or that he can't do it on his own.

Gray, John

40.

The worst men often give the best advice.