“A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the
stupid ones that need the advice.”
-Bill Cosby |
“Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.”
-Benjamin Franklin |
“My advice to you is get married: if you find a
good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.”
- Socrates |
“Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the
longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.”
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
“Parents can only give good advice or put them on
the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their
own hands.”
- Anne Frank |
“Most people who ask for advice from others have
already resolved to act as it pleases them.”
- Khalil Gibran |
“In those days he was wiser than he is now; he
used to frequently take my advice.”
- Winston Churchill |
“Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.” - Marcus Tullius Cicero |
“I always pass on good advice. It is the only
thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde |
“When we are well, we all have good advice for
those who are ill.”
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
“I see it all perfectly; there are two possible
situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my
friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both.”
- Soren
Kierkegaard
|
“When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the
kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him.”
- Josh Billings |
“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.”
- Joan Rivers
|
“Walk a mile in my shoes is good
advice. Our children will learn to respect others if they are used to
imagining themselves in another's place.”
- Neil Kurshan
|
“Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be
more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we
approach to our journey's end.”
- Marcus
Tullius Cicero
|
“My mother gave lots of good advice and had a lot
to say. As you get older, you realize everything she said was true.”
- Lenny
Kravitz
|
“I haven't been faithful to my own advice in the
past. I will in the future.”
- Billy Graham |
“Most people when they come to you for advice,
come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.”
- Josh Billings |
“There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.”
- Sophocles |
“Don't give your advice before you are called
upon.”
- Desiderius Erasmus |
“To profit from good advice requires more wisdom
than to give it.”
- Wilson Mizner |
“Advice is what we ask for when we already know
the answer but wish we didn't.”
- Erica Jong |
“Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully
through a joke than grave teaching.”
- Baltasar Gracian |
“I'll tell you one thing: Don't ever give anybody
your best advice, because they're not going to follow it.”
- Jack Nicholson |
“Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent
you.”
- Theodor Adorno |
“I give opinions, not advice.”
- Lou Holtz |
“The advice of the elders to young men is very apt
to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.”
-Oliver Wendell Holmes |
“There is nothing which we receive with so much
reluctance as advice.”
- Joseph Addison |
“Your modern teenager is not about to listen to
advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there was
no Velcro.”
- Dave Barry |
“We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the
grain.”
- Tom Stoppard |
“It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside
of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.”
- Aeschylus |
“Unless a president can protect
the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.”
- Richard M. Nixon |
“Never give advice in a crowd.”
- Pope Paul VI |
“It is very good advice to
believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.”
- David Hockney |
“Never trust the advice of a man
in difficulties.”
- Aesop |
“It is easy to give advice from a
port of safety.”
- Friedrich Schiller |
“Listen to advice, but follow
your heart.”
- Conway Twitty |
“The best advice I ever got was
that knowledge is power and to keep reading.”
- David Bailey |
“When we ask for advice, we are
usually looking for an accomplice.”
- Saul Bellow |
“When you seek advice, do not
withhold any facts from the person whose advice you seek.”
- Abu Bakr |
