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

22.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

23.

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

24.

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

25.

Good advice is beyond all price.

Proverb

26.

Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

27.

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

28.

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

Sidney J. Harris

29.

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

Ball, Ivern

30.

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

Oscar Wilde

31.

If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't give advice.

Proverb, Chinese

32.

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

33.

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

Knegge

34.

Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb

35.

Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb

36.

It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.

Anne Tyler

37.

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

Bible

38.

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

39.

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

Collins, John Churton

40.

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

Johnson, Samuel

41.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

42.

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

Shakespeare, William

43.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

44.

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

Chapman, George

45.

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

46.

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

Cosby, Bill

47.

Never give advice in a crowd.

Proverb, Arabian

48.

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

49.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish Proverb

50.

Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom s. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.

Algren, Nelson