Advice Quotes, Sayings about Advice

It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted – Aeschylus.

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that’s no reason not to give it – Agatha Christie.

I shall tell you a great secret my friend. Do not wait for the last judgement, it takes place every day – Albert Camus.

A word to the wise ain’t necessary, it’s the stupid ones who need the advice – Bill Cosby.

Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive – Carolyn Wells.

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself – Cicero.

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example – Duc De La Rochefoucauld.

A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice – Edgar Watson Howe.

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 what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t – Erica Jong.

There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved – George Sand.

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.

I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career – Gloria Steinem.

Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it – Gordon R. Dickson.

My advice if you insist on slimming: Eat as much as you like-just don’t swallow it – Harry Secombe.

Don’t take advice from people with missing fingers – Henry Bead.

When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him – Henry Wheeler Shaw.

Whatever advice you give, be brief – Horace.

A leader must have the courage to act against an expert’s advice – James Callaghan.

Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people – J B Priestley.

To accept good advice is but to increase one’s own ability – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take – Josh Billings.

Advice is a dangerous gift, even to the wise from the wise, and all courses may run ill – J R R Tolkien.

She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it) – Lewis Carroll.

If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don’t listen to writers talking about writing or themselves – Lillian Hellman.

When a man won’t listen to his conscience, it’s usually because he doesn’t want advice from a total stranger – Lindsey Stewart.

When a man wants your advice he generally wants your praise – Lord Chesterfield.

Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least – Lord Chesterfield.

Advice is judged by results, not by intentions – Marcus Tullius Cicero.

It is better to give than receive- especially advice – Mark Twain.

I always pass on good advice. It’s the only thing to do with it. It is never any use to oneself – Oscar Wilde.

It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal – Oscar Wilde.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it – Publilius Syrus.

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart – Ruth Graham.

Advice is like snow; the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind – Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice – Saul Bellow.

Unruly ambition is deaf, not only to the advice of friends, but to the counsels and monitions of reason itself – Sir Roger L’estrange.

If better were within, better would come out – Thomas Fuller.

Ask a woman’s advice, and whatever she advises, Do the very reverse and you’re sure to be wise – Thomas More.

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it’s on your plate – Thornton Wilder.

To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility – William Cobbett.

It is a good divine that follows his own instructions – William Shakespeare.

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it – William Somerset Maugha.

To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it – Wilson Mizner.

Take it easy — but take it – Woody Guthrie.

Never answer an anonymous letter – Yogi Berra.

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