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Advice

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

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Best Quotes about Advice

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

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

Lope de Vega

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

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

Sidney J. Harris

The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

Macaulay, J. C.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Don't be a dick!

Wil Wheaton

10.

In those days he was wiser than he is now -- he used frequently to take my advice.

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

English Proverb

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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

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

Solon

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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

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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

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Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Benjamin, Walter

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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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Collins, John Churton

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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

Masson, Thomas L.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Herbert, Jack

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

Alger, William R.

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Always be nice to bankers.Always be nice to pension fund managers.Always be nice to the media.In that order.

Hanson, Lord

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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

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There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.

Dahlberg, Edward

32.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

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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

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The worst men often give the best advice.

Bailey, Philip James

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

Bible

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

Aeschylus

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Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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Advice is like castor oil, easy to give, but dreadful to take.

Billings, Josh

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

Ball, Ivern

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

Bible

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

Collins, John Churton

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It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

46.

Good advice is beyond all price.

Proverb

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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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Advice is like snow; the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Ask advice only of your equals.

Danish Proverb