He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

Bacon, Francis

16.

I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.

Shakespeare, William

17.

It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.

Aeschylus

18.

It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

19.

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

Gibran, Kahlil

20.

We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do.

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

21.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

22.

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

23.

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

Wilde, Oscar

24.

Don't give advice. It will come back and bite you in the [butt]. Don't take anyone's advice. So, my advice to you is to be true to yourself and everything will be fine.

Ellen DeGeneres

25.

Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise.

Seabury, David

26.

Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.

English Proverb

27.

Anybody who ask for advice nowadays just hasn't been listening.

28.

Most of us ask for advice when we know the answer but we want a different one.

Ball, Ivern

29.

Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel.

Chapman, George

30.

Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.

Lope de Vega

31.

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

Sidney J. Harris

32.

A word to the wise isn't necessary, it is the stupid ones who need all the advice.

Cosby, Bill

33.

It is easy to give advice from a port of safety.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

34.

Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favor.

Collins, John Churton

35.

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

36.

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

37.

The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is.

Brooks, Phillips

38.

We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice.

Herbert, Jack

39.

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

40.

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

41.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Syrus, Publilius

42.

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

43.

If one man says to thee, Thou art a donkey, pay no heed. If two speak thus, purchase a saddle.

Talmud, The

44.

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

45.

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

46.

No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Steinbeck, John

47.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

48.

Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.