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Advice
I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.
Best Quotes about Advice
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
Ask advice only of your equals.
Danish Proverb
It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.
Anne Tyler
I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.
Fowler, Gene
A word to the wise isn't necessary, it is the stupid ones who need all the advice.
Cosby, Bill
Most of us ask for advice when we know the answer but we want a different one.
Ball, Ivern
We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do.
Shaw, Henry Wheeler
Consult. To seek another's approval of a course already decided on.
Bierce, Ambrose
Always be nice to bankers.Always be nice to pension fund managers.Always be nice to the media.In that order.
Hanson, Lord
If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't give advice.
Proverb, Chinese
In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.
Chesterfield, Lord
Generally speaking, when a woman offers unsolicited advice or tries to help a man, she has no idea of how critical and unloving she may sound to him.
Gray, John
A fool think he needs no advice, but a wise man listens to others. [Proverbs 12:15]
Bible
No one wants advice, only corroboration.
Steinbeck, John
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
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
It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.
Macaulay, J. C.
The worst men often give the best advice.
Bailey, Philip James
The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.
Johnson, Samuel
We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.
Alger, William R.
Advice is very easy to give, and even easier not to follow, so I don't fool with it.
Randy Pausch
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
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
Never give advice unless asked.
German Proverb
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
Number one: Don't frisk me. Don't hurt me physically. Don't get anywhere near my neck. And don't call me Regis. [Advice to his guests]
Letterman, David
Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favor.
Collins, John Churton
It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
Aeschylus
To advise is easier than to help.
Proverb, German
To advise is not to compel.
Proverb, German
One can advise comfortably from a safe port.
Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von
Advice is like castor oil, easy to give, but dreadful to take.
Billings, Josh
We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice.
Herbert, Jack
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.
Gibran, Kahlil
We may give advice, but not the sense to use it.
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De
Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.
Aesop
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
Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel.
Chapman, George
It is bad advice that cannot be changed.
Syrus, Publilius
In giving advice, seek to help, not please, your friend.
Solon
Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.
Knegge
Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.
Lope de Vega
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
Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.
Billings, Josh
In those days he was wiser than he is now -- he used frequently to take my advice.
Churchill, Winston
Many receive advice, few profit by it.
Publilius Syrus
To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
Aurobindo, Ghose
Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.
Spanish Proverb
Good advice is beyond all price.
Proverb
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