Quotation Explorer - 'Advice'

Good advice is not often served in our favorite flavor. - Tim Fargo
RASH, adj. Insensible to the value of our advice. "Now lay your bet with mine, nor let These gamblers take your cash." "Nay, this child makes no bet." "Great snakes! How can you be so rash?" Bootle P. Gish - Ambrose Bierce
Don't let anyone take your power by influencing what you do.... sure ask for advice when you are still deciding, but once you are sure what you want to go for, don't let anyone deflect you. It is YOUR choice to make and to follow through. - Jay Woodman
A person is wise if he listens to millions of advice and doesn't implement any of it. - Michael Bassey Johnson
My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can. - Frank Zappa
To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery. - John Churton Collins
Imperfection doesn’t disqualify you from helping others -- it makes you more qualified to give advice in the area you learned from. - Adam Smith
Some general advice about writing:WRITE MORE, DO OTHER STUFF LESS. - Brian K. Vaughan
In giving advice, seek to help, not please, your friend. - Solon
Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin. - Stanislaw J. Lec
i've found the best way to give advice to your children,is to find out what they want,and then advise them to do it - Harry Truman
It is always wise to never act on any advice, suggestion or opinion of a person whose views, more often than not, remain in sync with the broadcast reviews and news. - Anuj Somany
Free advice is worth the price. - Robert Half
If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice. - Norman Augustine
Nevertheless, I sought counsel from my leaders and obeyed, even when I knew their advice would make my life more complicated. I decided it was not for me to question and that if some advice caused temporary pain for me, it must be something I should experience. - Gordon B. Hinckley
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
said:"Early to bed and early to riseMake a man healthy wealthy and wise"Lately I have read the advice given to William Randolph Hearst, when a young man, by his father:"Go downtown at noon and rob the other fellows of what they have made during the morning. E. Haldeman-Julius - Ben Franklin
Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either. - Meg Cabot
Don't just listen to a good Advice, but also take it. - Mohith Agadi
Never underestimate the value of advice from anyone, whether they are younger or older than you. Wisdom is not categorised under age - Unarine Ramaru
There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice. - Joseph Addison
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite. - G. K. Chesterton
Advice is very easy to give, and even easier not to follow, so I don't fool with it. - Randy Pausch
Be Practical." That's probably the most stupid piece of advice I've ever received in my life. - Sharad Vivek Sagar
It's a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other. - Aldous Huxley
I don't want to give advice to a 19-year-old, because I want a 19-year-old to make mistakes and learn from them. Make mistakes, make mistakes, make mistakes. Just make sure they're your mistakes. - Fiona Apple
Advice is judged by results, not by intentions. - Cicero
The water cleansed his soul of the clutter and junk he had acquired through advice from those who were loud, but wrong. Many who had claimed to be wise had filled him, like so many others, with fear, hate, and judgement - all emotions that could not be carried be carried into Eternity. - Scott Thompson
I am always chilled and astonished by the would-be writers who ask me for advice and admit, quite blithely, that they "don't have time to read." This is like a guy starting up Mount Everest saying that he didn't have time to buy any rope or pitons. - Stephen King
No matter what it is that you want to do, you should dream as big as you can and go for it. Don't let anyone tell you that it can't be done because that's the worst advice. Do whatever you want to do and hard work will make it pay off. - Logan Henderson
My words are not a form of free advice. They are born through my journey called life! - Trishna Damodar
Mom lies down next to me and we both stare at the ceiling in complete silence. Boys are like candy, she suddenly says. I grin. Really, Mom? That’s your advice? Boys are like candy. What is that? Forrest Gump on teens? - Rucy Ban
The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself. - Oscar Wilde
Tis the advisor who suffers from bad advice. - Anonymous
He who does not seek advice is a fool. His folly blinds him to Truth and makes him evil, stubborn, and a danger to his fellow men. - Kahlil Gibran
Do you have any advice for your readers?Lead the life that’s yours instead of faking someone else’s. - Sandy Nathan
The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve; we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right or wrong. - Pierre Charron
Some friends give bad advice because they live a bad life. - Errol Anthony Smythe
I'm very wary about giving advice. I think it's very dangerous to give advice to people, except if you know them very well. - Omar Sharif
Change what you can, darlin'. That's my best advice. - Dee Williams
Give neither advice nor salt, until you are asked for it. - English Proverb
I realize that advice is worth what it costs--that is, nothing. - Douglas MacArthur
If you want to become a chemist, you will have to ruin your health. If you don't ruin your health studying, you won't accomplish anything these days in chemistry.{Liebig's advice to .} Justus von Liebig - August Kekulé
Without asking anybody’s advice I turned myself insane sitting under the same sun and the same clouds. - Suman Pokhrel
ADVICE, n. The smallest current coin. "The man was in such deep distress," Said Tom, "that I could do no less Than give him good advice." Said Jim: "If less could have been done for him I know you well enough, my son, To know that's what you would have done." Jebel Jocordy - Ambrose Bierce
I once complained to my father that I didn't seem to be able to do things the same way other people did. Dad's advice? 'Margo, don't be a sheep. People hate sheep. They eat sheep.' - Margo Kaufman
Your advice seems a little ironical.""Oh, you may either follow it or reverse it—that is its chief beauty. It is equally good taken either way. - Thomas Henry Lister
It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice. - Anne Tyler
One of the greatest pieces of advice I’ve ever gotten in my life was from my mom. When I was a little kid there was a kid who was bugging me at school and she said Okay, I’m gonna tell you what to do. If the kid’s bugging you and puts his hands on you; you pick up the nearest rock... - Johnny Depp
My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate. - Thornton Wilder
Our long wanderings have made a man out of him, too. They have not only strengthened his frame and hardened his constitution, but they have given stability to his character. He is thoughtful and prudent, and his advice will always be valuable, while of his courage I have no doubt. - G.A. Henty
It’s often mistaken for good advice, but wisdom cannot be imparted to someone. Wisdom can only be earned; it’s a by-product of experience, not necessarily knowledge, otherwise I would be stalking Oprah right now, begging for a transfusion. - Renee Carlino
Many receive advice, few profit by it. - Publilius Syrus
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
A word of advice, my sweet Emmett - mourn the losses because they are many. But celebrate the victories because they are few. - Debbie Novotny
My advice to any girl ... read and learn about sexuality and surround yourself with people who you can talk to and who can support you through your journey. Be comfortable with who you are. Connect with others as you get to discover you are not alone. Don't suffocate yourself ... - Rena Otieno
Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it. - Gordon R. Dickson
Anyone can give any number of advice often nice with the word ‘YOU’ in own voice; but he who is truly different, positive and wise always shows a constructive action on his words to unearth lies. - Anuj Somany
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. - Erica Jong
It is a sign of arrogance to be mad at someone for not acting as per your advice, especially if it was unsolicited. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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 Brown
In matters of religion and matrimony I never give advice, because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge. - Philip Dormer Stanhope
No engineer can go upon a new work and not find something peculiar, that will demand his careful reflection, and the deliberate consideration of any advice that he may receive; and nothing so fully reveals his incapacity as a pretentious assumption of knowledge, claiming to understand everything. - John Bloomfield Jervis
Advice is least heeded when most needed. - American Proverb
Third, it is helpful to seek advice from those who are spiritually mature and solid in their faith. A godly counselor or pastor can assist you in avoiding the common mistakes that confuse many young people. - James C. Dobson
I do not take advice from people who are 100 percent sure. I take advice from those that believe they are as close to sure as possible, but understand they could be completely wrong. - Marc Marcel
I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career. - Gloria Steinem
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice. - Marquis de la Grange
I do not take advice or listen to the words of hypocrites or beings that are not self-realized. It's nothing personal. I am simply no fan of beings that try to sound wise, while trying to mask their imbecility. - Lionel Suggs
When I make a mistake, all I need from you is correction. Some more advice won't hurt. Judge not. - DaVyshka
Never offer unsolicited advice. The receiver might not know that you are smarter than him. - C.J. Langenhoven
Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't! - George Bernard Shaw
If someone gives you so-called good advice, do the opposite; you can be sure it will be the right thing nine out of 10 times. - Anselm Feurbah
Take some advice from an old farmer. You’re in business now. Take the money. You’d be amazed at how many don’t want to pay. - Kathy Bryson, Fighting Mad
When asked for advice on how to write a short story, Carlos Cortés responded, No advice. Every writer has to exorcise his own demons. - Carlos Cortés
Those who try to give us advice on matters of human rights do nothing but provoke an ironic smile among us. We will not permit anyone to interfere in our affairs.
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t. - Erica Jong
Often the best advice is not to seek advice. - Habeeb Akande
My advice would be to write-never to stop writing, to keep it up all the time, to be painstaking about it, to write until you begin to write. - Gabriel Fielding
I used to give advice, and no one wanted it. Now I give suggestions and everyone asks for more. - Monika Zands
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. - Edna St. Vincent Millay
It doesn't matter what anyone else thinks. It matters what you think of yourself and what your children think. So if anyone is going to ask my advice, I'd say, do what is right for you and don't give a shit what anyone else thinks - Gwyneth Paltrow
Most times when folks ask for advice, they already know what they should do. They just want to hear it from someone else. - Jeannette Walls (Author)
...for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill. - J. R. R. Tolkien
Do you want a good advice on your path? Here it is: Don’t be sure of your path! Don’t ever be sure of it! Do you want more advice? Here it is: Doubt your path! And examine the other paths, know the other paths! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Never tell a mother how she has to raise her children and give no advice over their schooling, health or nutrition if you are not asked to. - Rossana Condoleo
I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it. - Harry Truman
Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both. - Al Franken
The connoisseur of painting gives only bad advice to the painter. For that reason I have given up trying to judge myself. - Pablo Picasso
I'm just giving advice. - Yunosuke Yoshinaga
Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties. - Aesop
Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into, the mind. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him. - John Billings(Henry Wheeler Shaw)
A person that does not value your time will not value your advice. - Orrin Woodward
You've learned the lessons well. You first learned to live on less than you earn. Next you learned to seek advice from those who are competent. Lastly, you've learned to make gold work for you. - George S. Clason
The requirement for advice being received well is that you’ve produced results with your life. Results are what matters! - Adam Smith
Yes, reason has been a part of organized religion, ever since two nudists took dietary advice from a talking snake. - Jon Stewart
Look here, said Will. When a man comes to me for advice about an idea, I know he doesn’twant advice. He wants me to agree with him. And if I want to keep his friendship I tell him his idea isfine and go ahead. But I like you and you’re a friend of my family, so I’m going to stick my neck out. - John Steinbeck
One of my professors in college used to say As the wise man said, Do or do not, there is no try, but the advice columns generally say the opposite. If someone promises to try, and you're happy with that, don't push. It can backfire. You can get yourself in a lot of trouble asking for too much. - Jael McHenry
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
Saying others the fools does not make one a wise unless and until the same person eschews own words of advice to others and displays the world of action that is nice to enrich only the good character people's lives. - Anuj Somany
God has provided you with many avenues for obtaining wisdom and averting failure. Resist your inclination to accept advice with easy solutions and to reject help that requires a more difficult path. - Jim George
Okay. Chase paused for a beat. But can I give you a word of advice? No. Chase grinned and went on. If you make Bridget unhappy, you’re gonna make Maddie unhappy. And that’s going to make me very unhappy. - J. Lynn
Quit now, you'll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you'll be halfway there. - David Zucker
Advice from a Romance Writer: Guys, make your woman feel pretty even on an 'off' day. Trust me, good things will come of it. - Michelle M. Pillow
If I can give you any advice, it's this: every hour that you spend sat on the couch doing nothing, put it to good use, because when you have kids, an hour is like a lifetime. - Noel Gallagher
One word of caution—be careful how much you listen to the advice of others when in a deep pit of despair. - David P. Ingerson
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Ask your neighbor only about things you know better yourself. Then his advice could prove valuable. - Karl Kraus
Life became more aligned when I started taking some of the advice I'd been dishing out to my friends. - Paula Heller Garland
Advice saves you time. If you ask anyone over fifty, which is more important, time or money, they will ALWAYS tell you time. - Douglas Copeland
"Careful with fire" is good advice we know."Careful with words" is ten times doubly so. - William Carleton
And, believe me, if I were again beginning my studies, I should follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics. - Galileo Galilei
Learning from others is primary to your success, even doctors seek advice from specialists. - Unarine Ramaru
I say fuck the old advice 'show, don't tell.' It's called story TELLING for a reason, and I'll stick to it! - Ashly Lorenzana
I may die young, but at least I'll die smart.... If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart...Best advice I can ever give you. - Ziad K. Abdelnour
The only thing that makes advice great is when you apply it and it works so try, try try. - Rob Liano
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke. - Edwina Currie
My best advice to you is: Whatever you do, do NOT take my advice. - Rythmic Karma
To give advice to a man who asks what to do with his life implies something very close to egomania. To presume to point a man to the right and ultimate goal to point with a trembling finger in the RIGHT direction is something only a fool would take upon himself. - Hunter S. Thompson
The best advice comes from the one who has made more mistakes– they have learned great lessons! The one who always got it right has surely not lived through the entire experience. - Chinonye J. Chidolue
A quotation can often give the best advice. - Chris Mentillo
Advice for a long and happy life - never tell a writer you have fixed their work. Ever. - C.S. Woolley
I wanted to give you advice. Adults are always doing that; it's one of their occupational hazards. - Maia Wojciechowska
5 words of advice to reduce stress - "Connect with your Soul's power" or "Change your reality through Coaching". - Jay Woodman
My only advice is to stay aware, listen carefully, and yell for help if you need it. - Judy Blume
I give myself, sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it. - Mary Montagu
The best advice is what the skylark gives by singing. - Marty Rubin
Wisdom most of the time takes form of advice. - Veda Catherine Storey
Good advice I always hated, but lookin back it made me greater. - Nicki Minaj
Women who seek advice from single women about getting a man is like asking a homeless man how to be rich. - Habeeb Akande
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
People who actually have good advice seldom give it voluntarily, instead others seek them out for it. They do not shove it down people's throats just to boost their exaggerated sense of importance. - JJ Matebesi
Never give advice unless asked. - German Proverb
If you don't stop fear, fear will stop you. Somebody's gotta stop. My advice? Don't let it be you. Whatever IT is. Do IT afraid - Saji Ijiyemi
Babynamescube.com is a world famous baby naming and pareting website. Find beautiful and trendy names with meaning and origin. Also get parenting advice. - Linda
i Create. I don't "Need".Meaning: I don't need advice or criticism. Unless you're offering money, weed, or whiskey save it. Thanks. - Jonathan Heatt
Never give advice... A wise man won't need it A fool won't heed it. - Unknown
Advice is like snow -- the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is fatal. - Oscar Wilde
Sometimes the best advice comes from those whom you least expect…therefore take no one for granted - Jeremy Aldana
Their plans were improved with the best advice.
When Albert Einstein told you to hide your source, he wasn't giving you a deliberate advice to conceal the root in which you're growing, but was to conceal the root from the eyes of people that will dare to uproot it. - Michael Bassey Johnson
Six pillar advice for young people:Know thy Creator.Know thy sacred soul.Educate thyself.Don’t doubt your dreams.Pursue your passion.Never lose hope. - Laillah Gifty Akita
The best advice I've ever received is, 'No one else knows what they're doing either. - Ricky Gervais
For all its accolades and celebrated recognition as sound guidance, I have personally noticed that sometimes, 'follow your heart,' is really bad advice. - Steve Maraboli
If no one gives me advice I always follow it. - Marty Rubin
There is one piece of advice, in a life of study, which I think no one will object to; and that is, every now and then to be completely idle - to do nothing at all. - Sydney Smith
An advice is truly valuable when people not just give it their ears but also their obedience. - Amit Kalantri
Good bye" is a good gift when you wave it at me because I refuse to follow a bad advice you gave. Wave it at me and I will show you the door. - Israelmore Ayivor
Many people are not ready to pay for advice they can use, so the few that do, break boundaries and soar higher. - Bernard Kelvin Clive
I'm bad when it comes to giving advice and best at expressing myself. - Shawn Lukas
Organize your life the way God wants it to be. When you pray, ask God for counsel on matters and you will get the wisest advice directly from heaven - Sunday Adelaja
Millions of words are written annually purporting to tell how to beat the races, whereas the best possible advice on the subject is found in the three monosyllables: 'Do not try.' - Dan Parker
Advice is autobiography. - J.R. Rim
Send me all the advice you like. I'll use as much as I can. - Louisa May Alcott
You're not asking me for advice, you're asking me for permission. - Steve Maraboli
I am reminded of the advice of my neighbor. "Never worry about your heart till it stops beating. - E.B. White
For someone so conflicted, who am I to give advice to anybody? It’s such a funny, grandiose idea - Florence Welch
Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble. - Sidney J. Harris
Advice is the only commodity on the market where the supply always exceeds the demand.
No one wants advice, only collaboration. - John Steinbeck
My mom grew up in Spanish Harlem and the Bronx and gave me an invaluable piece of advice for dealing with people in New York - if someone's bugging you just act crazy. I've modified her approach somewhat. Public displays of religiosity work just as well as feigning psychosis. - Waiter Rant
Just a word of advice. Whenever you're furious with your parents or you think they're terrible, just remember, you vomited on them and they kept you.
The best advice you can give anyone consists of one word only, given at precisely the right moment. - Glen McDiarmid
No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, the wisdom of cookbook writers. - Laurie Colwin
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. - English Proverb
Ask advice only of your equals. - Danish Proverb
If you achieve success, you will get applause, and if you get applause, you will hear it. My advice to you concerning applause is this; enjoy it but never quite believe it.
Advice, like medicine, should be given in small does; that a little is good doesn't mean more will be better.
Mind your own business; The best statement that any wise person can see as encouragement and best advice ever. - Unarine Ramaru
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.... I advice keep singing peacefully "GO NAWAZ GO - Abdul'Rauf Hashmi
Writing is a profession that has no real career structure and your best advice when you hit a difficulty is probably going to come from another writer one or two rungs on the career ladder ahead of you. - Sara Sheridan
My best advice to writers is get yourself born in an interesting place. - Pierre Berton
The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others. - Anonymous
The drive to Santa Fe on I-25 is midly zen. There are public road signs that say "Gusty Winds May Exist". This seems more like lazy philosophy than travel advice. - Chuck Klosterman
Never go to another woman about your woman. Not unless you want an insidious form of advice. - Donna Lynn Hope
Don’t listen to advice. Give yourself the freedom to make your own errors, it’s the only way you’ll learn. - Stewart Stafford
I give myself sometimes admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it. - Mary Wortley Montagu
When someone gives you advice, just ask them to give it in writing and they will either keep mum or will run from there. - Amit Kalantri
Not even a hand-stitched suit could hide a body gone ruinously to seed. I was tempted to offer some fashion advice, but I didn't think he'd welcome the news that this year, bellies are being worn inside the trousers - Val McDermid
One of the advantages of being a captain is being able to ask for advice without necessarily having to take it.
If a person is not careful of oneself, many others around make him fool by giving plenty of advice full of lies . Some will do it intentionally but most of them ignorantly. - Anuj Somany
As a general rule...people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it. - Alexandre Dumas
When asking for advice, search not for what is on the surface, Dig deeper, questioning what does this person believe in? - J.R. Rim
I kept trying to talk myself out of my second thoughts when they were trying to help me. My advice? When it comes to relationships, second thoughts should be promoted. - Deb Caletti
Never give advice unless you have walked the walk, because anybody can talk the talk. - Valencia Mackie
My advice, as in everything, is to read widely and think for yourself We need more dissent and less dogma. - Camille Paglia
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
Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it. - Edna St. Vincent Millay
Whatever advice you give, be brief. - Horace
Successful men follow the same advice they prescribe for others.
Stupid people always think they are right. Wise people listen to advice.
I live in vice. I eat twice - with a advice. - Deyth Banger
You want my advice? Put down your phone. Hug her from behind and kiss the back of her neck. Entwine your fingers with hers…. You’re welcome. - Steve Maraboli
Even the most perfect advice cannot be as useful as a staircase or a rope for those who live in the dark wells! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Any advice for how to be a successful author?""Yes. Don't be a woman. And be dead. And do both at the same time, if you can. - Michelle Franklin
To ask for advice is in nine cases out of ten to ask for flattery. - John Churton Collins
My most important piece of advice to all you would-be writers: when you write, try to leave out all the parts readers skip. - Elmore Leonard
Statements make sense for somebody who needs advice. I’m not giving advice. I don’t instruct. At my best, I delight. That’s my job. - Ron Koertge
At the end of the day, it’s your life. If you turn out good, the world celebrates you and with you (not minding how you achieved it). If bad, they abandon you (even if they gave you the advice that led you to doom). Just be you and follow your heart. - Omoakhuana Anthonia
If an eagle is teaching you to fly, ignore the advice of turkeys. - Matshona Dhliwayo
My only advice is to feel with joy, listen with your heart, be kind to all, be compassionate when needed, and love endlessly. - Debasish Mridha
A wise doesn’t need advice or action of the people to know their true intention because a sane person can gauge it by mere observation of the attitude, good or bad, of their close companion towards others. - Anuj Somany
Listen to the advice of someone about to die. Do it while you are still young. - Glen McDiarmid
Just be yourself' is about the worst advice you can give some people. - Alain de Botton
I have lived some thirty years on this planet and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors. - Henry David Thoreau
A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice. - Anonymous
Be warned against all 'good' advice because 'good' advice is necessarily 'safe' advice, and though it will undoubtedly follow a sane pattern, it will very likely lead one into total sterility--one of the crushing problems of our time. - Jules Feiffer
Be yourself is the worst advice you can give to some people. - Tom Masson
Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or expectations or advice, however widely circulated - Alan W. Watts
It is a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it.
I don't think anyone can give you advice when you've got a broken heart. - Britney Spears
I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice. - W. Somerset Maugham
One of chief pieces of advice I give to aspiring rationalists is "Don't try to be clever." And, "Listen to those quiet, nagging doubts." If you don't know, you don't know what you don't know, you don't know how much you don't know, and you don't know how much you needed to know. - Eliezer Yudkowsky
Advice to Young Poets Never pretend to be a unicorn by sticking a plunger on your head. - Martín Espada
Ladies and Gentlemen, take my advice, pull down your pants and slide on the ice. - Diane Arbus
Good parents use the mistakes they did in the past when they were young to advice the children God gave to them to prevent them from repeating those mistakes again. However, bad parents always want to be seen as right and appear "angelic and saintly" as if they never had horrible youth days. - Israelmore Ayivor
No matter how many people give me advice, I am going to do what my heart tells me to do - Lana Del Rey
It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done. - Samuel Smiles
When asked my advice as I stroll through the town,A good lady knows how to take a political assassin down. - Mandy Nachampassack-Maloney
I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about. - Henry Ford
Its not easy taking your own advice, accepting what you don't like hearing, & seeing the grey amongst the black & white. - April Mae Monterrosa
Roses do not take beauty advice from weeds. - Matshona Dhliwayo
I always advise people never to give advice. - P.G. Wodehouse
Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it. - W. Somerset Maugham
A word to the wise ain't necessary -- it's the stupid ones that need the advice. - Bill Cosby
Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long. - Robert Lynd
Is there a communication breakdown in your marriage because of the "crowd noise" i.e.. too many people in your life you are taking advice from? Who is in your ear that isn’t a part of the team on and off the field? That’s the noise you drown out. - Shon Hyneman Love And Football How to play on the same team with your spouse
Not writing is never an option. This is not words of advice. It's just literally never an option! - Lillian R. Melendez
But in general, take my advice, when you meet anything that's going to be human and isn't yet, or used to be human once and isn't now, or ought to be human and isn't, you keep your eyes on it and feel for your hatchet. - C.S. Lewis
I’m doing what I’ve always done. Learning from the mistakes of others who take my advice. - Nitya Prakash
There's very little advice in men's magazines, because men think, I know what I'm doing. Just show me somebody naked. - Jerry Seinfeld
Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise. - J. R. R. Tolkien
You can overcome any obstacles by asking the right questions of the right people at the right time, then act on that advice with passion.
No-one wants advice only corroboration. - John Steinbeck
I've received two key pieces of advice in regard to my books. The first is, "You should lay off the f-bombs." The other is, "You should add more f-bombs. - LiNCOLN PARK
Pretend to give consent to the advice of others, but if you find it suitable,take it. But if out of the right view, despise and cast it away - Michael Bassey Johnson
Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it. - W. Somerset Maugham
A word to the wise ain't necessary, it's the stupid ones who need advice. - Bill Cosby
An old man's advice is not an opinion - Nathanael Kanyinga
Great mentors give great advice. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Beware of those who love to give advice, but never want to receive it! - Mignon' Talise Padilla
Some of the best advice I ever received was "Man, that was terrible". - Tom Hanks
A place that proves if you get enough talented people in a room, one or two are bound to offer some helpful advice. Kind if like monkeys with typewriters. - A. Lee Martinez
Proud people have a mirror, the objects in that mirror is rebellion, A wise advice is often seen by them as controlling, Let them be. - Oluseyi Akinbami
When i was younger, one piece of advice from a mentor stuck with me for years...."When shaking someones hand make sure its strong and confident. For 1st impressions last and your character is automatically assumed in that one second of greeting... - Daleen Van Tonder
be lawful for the Queen, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate and House of Commons, to make Laws for the Peace, Order, and Good Government of Canada - The British North America Act, Article 91
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