Advice  

 

 

  • Accept good advice gracefully--as long as it doesn't interfere with what you intended to do in the first place.--Gene Brown

     

  • Advice is judged by results, not by intention.--Cicero

     

  • Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into, the mind.--Samuel Taylor Coleridge

     

  • Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive.--Carolyn Wells (The Rest of My Live)

     

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

     

  • As time passes we all get better at blazing a trail through the thicket of advice.--Margot Bennett

     

  • The best advisors ... 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.-—Philip Brooks

     

  • 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.--David Seabury

     

  • Giving advice is sometimes only showing our wisdom at the expense of others.--Anthony Shaftesbury

     

  • Good advice is often annoying--bad advice never is.--French proverb

     

  • He that gives good advice builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example builds with both...--Francis Bacon

     

  • He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.--Karl von Knebel

     

  • I always advise people never to give advice.--P. G. Wodehouse

     

  • I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing over whether it is true or not.--Peter Medawar

     

  • I realize that advice is worth what it costs--that is, nothing.--Douglas MacArthur

     

  • I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.--Mary Worley Montagu

     

  • If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity, it would he this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold your head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, "I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me."--Ann Landers

     

  • If you can distinguish between good advice and bad advice, then you don't need advice.--Van Roy's Second Law (in "Expertmanship" Murphy's Law: Book three, comp. by Bloch)

     

  • It is an easy thing for one whose foot
    is on the outside of calamity
    to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.--Aeschylus (Prometheus Bound)

     

  • My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate--that's my philosophy. (By the Skin of Our Teeth)

     

  • No enemy is worse than bad advice.--Sophocles (Electra)

     

  • Older and wiser voices can always help you find the right path, if you are only willing to listen.--Jimmy Buffet (A Pirate Looks At 50)

     

  • The only thing one can do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.--Oscar Wilde

     

  • 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 are always willing to follow advice when it accords with their own wishes.--Lady Blessington (The Confessions of an Elderly Lady)

     

  • Pray to God, but continue to row toward shore.--Russian Proverb

     

  • Read carefully anything that requires your signature. Remember the big print giveth and the small print taketh away.--H. Jackson Brown (Life's Little Instruction Book) 

     

  • Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.--Gordon R. Dickson

     

  • There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.--Joseph Addison

     

  • To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.--Churton Collins

     

  • 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

     

  • Until thy feet have trod the Road
    Advise not wayside folk.--Rudyard Kipling ("The Comforters")

     

  • We older women who know we aren't heroines can offer our younger sisters, at the very least, an honest report of what we have learned and how we have grown.--Elizabeth Janeway

     

  • When we ask advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.--Charles Varlet de La Grange

     

  • A word to the wise ain't necessary--it's the stupid ones who need the advice.--Bill Cosby

 

 

 

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