Advice Quotes
To ask for advice is in nine cases out of ten to ask for flattery.John Churton Collins
Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.W. Somerset Maugham
Old people like to give good advice, as solace for no longer being able to provide bad examples.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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
Many receive advice, few profit by it.Publilius Syrus
Never have anything to do with an unlucky place, or an unlucky man. I have seen many clever men, very clever men, who had not shoes to their feet. I never act with them. Their advice sounds very well, but they cannot get on themselves; and if they cannot do good to themselves, how can they do good for me?Rothschild
In giving advice, seek to help, not please, your friend.Solon
To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery.John Churton Collins
For advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.J. R. R. Tolkien
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
We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do.Josh Billings
In the choice of a horse and a wife, a man must please himself, ignoring the opinion and advice of friends.George John Whyte - Melville
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
I agree with every word you write, and I can prove this in no better way than by taking your advice from beginning to end.Ellen Glasgow
Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise.J. R. R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.
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
To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.Churton Collins
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
Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts".
My advice to you is get married if you find a good wife youll be happy if not, youll become a philosopher.Socrates
Advice is like snow the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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.Henry David Thoreau
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity, it would be 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
It is a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it.Author Unknown
Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.Robert Lynd
Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.W. Somerset Maugham
The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.Oscar Wilde
Stupid people always think they are right. Wise people listen to advice.Proverbs 12: 15
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 judged by results, not by intentions.Cicero
Give neither advice nor salt, until you are asked for it.English Prove
Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.Aesop
The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.Oliver Wendell Holmes
Careful with fire is good advice we know. Careful with words is ten times doubly so.William Carleton
The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others.Anonymous
The art of advice is to make the recipient believe he thought the thought of it himself.Frank Tyge
