Advice Quotes

Joseph addison - a woman seldom asks advice before she has bought...
When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.
Al Franken, "Oh, the Things I Know", 2002
Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.
W. Somerset Maugham
Marquis de la grange - when we ask for advice, we are usually looking...
The people sensible enough to give good advice are usually sensible enough to give none.
Eden Phillpotts
Aesop - never trust the advice of a man in difficulties....
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, 1902
Advice to writers Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.
Stanislaw Lec
Time gives good advice.
Maltese Prove
We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do.
Josh Billings
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
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
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
Successful men follow the same advice they prescribe for others.
Author Unknown
Never give advice in a crowd.
Arab Prove
Advice is judged by results, not by intentions.
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
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
Advice is like snow the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
If you wish good advice, consult an old man.
Romanian Prove
My advice to you is get married if you find a good wife youll be happy if not, youll become a philosopher.
Socrates
How is it possible to expect mankind to take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
Jonathan Swift
The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others.
Anonymous
Many receive advice, few profit by it.
Publilius Syrus
Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.
Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts".
No one can give you better advice than yourself.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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
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
For advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.
Gordon R. Dickson
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.
Stupid people always think they are right. Wise people listen to advice.
Proverbs 12: 15
Ask advice only of your equals.
Danish Prove
Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
Robert Lynd
Advice is least heeded when most needed.
American Prove
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
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
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
English Prove
To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.
Churton Collins
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