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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 castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take.--Josh Billings
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
Advice may be wrong, but examples prove themselves.--Henry Wheeler Shaw ( The Complete Works of Josh Billings)
Always listen to the experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it.--Robert Heinlein
As time passes we all get better at blazing a trail through the thicket of advice.--Margot Bennett
Be warned against all "good" advice because "good" advice is necessarily "safe" advice, and though it will undoubtedly follow a sane pattern, it will very likely lead one into total sterility - one of the crushing problems of our time.--Jules Feiffer
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
The best career advice to give to the young is "Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it."--Katharine Whitehorn (Observer (London), 1975)
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
Good advice usually works best when preceded by a bad scare.--Al Batt
A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.--Edgar Watson Howe (Country Town Sayings)
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 always pass on good advice. It's the only thing to do with it. It is never any use to oneself.--Oscar Wilde (An Ideal Husband)
I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.--Edna St. Vincent Millay
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 listen and give input only if somebody asks.--Barbara Bush
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 wanted to become a tramp, I would seek information and advice from the most successful tramp I could find. If I wanted to be a failure, I would seek advice from men who never succeeded. If I wanted to succeed in all things, I would look around me for those who are succeeding, and do as they do.--Joseph H. Wade
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)
In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.--Solon
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)
It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.--Aeschylus
It is wrong to follow the advice of an adversary; nevertheless, it is right to hear it, that you may do the contrary, and this is the essence of good policy.--Sa'di (Gulistan)
Most of us are wiser than we may appear to be. … On one level, wisdom is nothing more profound than an ability to follow one’s own advice.--Sam Harris (Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion)
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)
My grandmother once told me to avoid colds and angry people whenever I could. It's sound advice.--Walter Inglis Anderson
Never open a can of worms unless you plan to go fishing.--John C. Maxwell ( Sometimes you Win - Sometimes you Learn)
No enemy is worse than bad advice.--Sophocles (Electra)
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.--Cicero
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)
A real friend ... exults in his friend’s happiness, rejoices in all his joys, and is ready to afford him the best advice.--Herodotus
So-called good advice is always served with compliments and sprinkled with sugar. I don't like sugar.--Victoria Wolff
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 advise is easier than to help.--German Proverb
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
This is your world. Shape it or someone else will.--Gary Lew
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