Advice is like snow; the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.
Abigail Van Buren
It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
African proverb
It takes a village to raise a child.
African proverb
Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive.
Carolyn Wells
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
Erica Jong
Too bad that all the people who really know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair.
George Burns
I have yet to hear a man ask for ãdvice on how to combine marriage and a career.
Gloria Steinem
Good things, when short, are twice as good.
Gracián
He only profits from praise who values criticism.
Heinrich Heine
Whatever advice you give, be brief.
Horace
A leader must have the courage to act against an expert’s advice.
James Callaghan
If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
Marcus Aurelius
Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.
Margaret Fuller
Always do right–this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
Mark Twain
The only thing to do with good ãdvice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.
Oscar Wilde
“Do-so” is more important than “say-so.”
Pete Seeger
He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.
Rabindranath Tagore
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
Robert Frost
If better were within, better would come out.
Thomas Fuller
A Decalogue of Canons for observation in practical life:
1. Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
Thomas Jefferson
We should be careful and discriminating in all the advice we give. We should be especially careful in giving advice that we would not think of following ourselves. Most of all, we ought to avoid giving counsel which we don’t follow when it damages those who take us at our word.
Adlai Stevenson
Advice is like castor oil, easy to give, but dreadful to take.
Josh Billings
A word to the wise ain’t necessary, it’s the stupid ones who need the advice.
Bill Cosby
Give advice to your children while they’re young enough to believe you know what you’re talking about.
I shall tell you a great secret my friend. Do not wait for the last judgement, it takes place every day.
Albert Camus
Just don’t take any class where you have to read BEOWULF.
Woody Allen
There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.
George Sand
One’s first step in wisdom is to question everything – and one’s last is to come to terms with everything.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
My advice to those who think they have to take off their clothes to be a star is, once you’re boned, what’s left to create the illusion? Let ‘em wonder. I never believed in givin’ them too much of me.
Mae West
If you have a lot of tension and you get a headache, do what it says on the aspirin bottle: “Take two aspirin” and “Keep away from children.
Listen to advice and accept correction, then in the end you will be wise.
Proverb
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
Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that’s no reason not to give it.
Agatha Christie
Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice
Duc De La Rochefoucauld
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
Oscar Wilde
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.
Joan Rivers
Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they even roll a few more upon it.
Albert Schweitzer
The best piece of advice I ever got came from my agent, who told me to stop slagging off studio heads when I’m doing interviews.
Ewan McGregor
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
Erica Jong
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
Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.
W. Somerset Maugham