Advice Quotes
Often sound advice turns out to be totally wrong. Sometimes things turn out in such a way that only a fool would predict. Which is why fools, too, have their place in analysis and debate.Unknown
Some of the best advice I ever received was Man, that was terrible.Tom Hanks
Their plans were improved with the best advice.J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
The art of advice is to make the recipient believe he thought the thought of it himself.Frank Tyge
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.Robert Montgomery
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
A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.Anonymous
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
Never give advice unless asked.German Prove
Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.Edna St. Vincent Millay, Letters, 1952
In giving advice, seek to help, not please, your friend.Solon
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.Konstantin Chernenko
All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.Alexis Carrel
Tis the advisor who suffers from bad advice.Anonymous
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Advice is like snow - - The softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Whatever advice you give, be brief.Horace
No one wants advice - - Only corroboration.John Steinbeck
Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.Richard Milhous Nixon
Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble.Sidney J. Harris
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.Robert Montgomery
Advice is the only commodity on the market where the supply always exceeds the demand.Author Unknown
Free advice is worth the price.Robert Half
The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.Oscar Wilde
When a thing is done, advice comes too late.Romanian Prove
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
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
You simply *must* stop taking advice from other people.Melissa Timberman
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
It is a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it.Author Unknown
Whatever your advice, make it brief.Horace
Old people like to give good advice, as solace for no longer being able to provide bad examples.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery.John Churton Collins
To ask for advice is in nine cases out of ten to ask for flattery.John Churton Collins
I give myself, sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.Mary Montagu
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 S Truman
If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice.Norman Augustine
