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

24.

The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

25.

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

26.

In giving advice, seek to help, not please, your friend.

Solon

27.

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

Zaslow, Jeff

28.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

Erica Jong

29.

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

30.

To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.

Aurobindo, Ghose

31.

Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Publilius Syrus

32.

I'm not a teacher: only a fellow-traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead -- ahead of myself as well as you.

Shaw, George Bernard

33.

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

Herbert, Jack

34.

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

35.

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

36.

There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.

Gore Vidal

37.

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

Alger, William R.

38.

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

39.

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

Ball, Ivern

40.

Never give advice unless asked.

German Proverb

41.

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

42.

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

Lope de Vega

43.

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

Sidney J. Harris

44.

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

Cosby, Bill

45.

Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.

Masson, Thomas L.

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

49.

Advice is very easy to give, and even easier not to follow, so I don't fool with it.

Randy Pausch

50.

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