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

20.

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

Sidney J. Harris

21.

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

Chapman, George

22.

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

23.

He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.

Knebel, Karl Von

24.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

25.

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Alesandra, Tony

26.

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

27.

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

Solon

28.

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

29.

We may give advice, but not the sense to use it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

30.

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

Aeschylus

31.

Give help rather than advice.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

32.

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

Knegge

33.

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

Johnson, Samuel

34.

It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.

Macaulay, J. C.

35.

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

36.

To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.

Collins, John Churton

37.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

38.

Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.

Billings, Josh

39.

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

40.

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

Bible

41.

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

42.

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

Cosby, Bill

43.

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

Proverb, Chinese

44.

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

Zaslow, Jeff

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.

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

47.

Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.

Gordon R. Dickson

48.

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

Collins, John Churton

49.

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

Erica Jong

50.

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