Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.
Spanish Proverb
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Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
Erica Jong
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Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
English Proverb
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Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.
Edna St. Vincent Millay Letters
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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
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It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.
Anne Tyler Celestial Navigation, 1974
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Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.
Aesop
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He that gives good advice builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.
Francis Bacon The Forbes Book of Business Quotations: 14,266 Thoughts on the Business of Life
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Never give advice unless asked.
German Proverb
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Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.
Gordon R. Dickson
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There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
Gore Vidal
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Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble.
Sidney J. Harris
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Many receive advice, few profit by it.
Publilius Syrus Maxims
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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
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In giving advice, seek to help, not please, your friend.
Solon
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Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.
Philip K. Dick What The Dead Men Say, 1964
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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
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The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.
Oscar Wilde
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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
Joseph Addison The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
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Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper its sinks into the mind.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Forbes Book of Business Quotations: 14,266 Thoughts on the Business of Life
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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 The Forbes Book of Business Quotations: 14,266 Thoughts on the Business of Life
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Many receive advice, only the wise profit by it.
Publilius Syrus The Forbes Book of Business Quotations: 14,266 Thoughts on the Business of Life
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When you counsel someone, you should appear to be reminding him of something he had forgotten, not of the light he was unable to see.
Baltasar Gracian The Forbes Book of Business Quotations: 14,266 Thoughts on the Business of Life
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In giving advice, I advise you, be short.
Horace Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations
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Do not ask advice of the ignorant.
Indian (Tamil) proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
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He that can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.
Karl Ludwig von Knebel The Forbes Book of Business Quotations: 14,266 Thoughts on the Business of Life
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Do not be inaccessible. None is so perfect that he does not need at times the advice of others. He is an incorrigible ass who will never listen to anyone. Even the most surpassing intellect should find a place for friendly counsel. Sovereignty itself must learn to lean. There are some that are incorrigible simply because they are inaccessible: they fall to ruin because none dares to extricate them. The highest should have the door open for friendship; it may prove the gate of help. A friend must be free to advise, and even to upbraid, without feeling embarrassed.
Baltasar Gracian The Forbes Book of Business Quotations: 14,266 Thoughts on the Business of Life
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A man takes contradiction and advice much more easily than people think, only he will not bear it when violently given, even if it is well-founded. Hearts are flowers; they remain open to the softly following dew, but shut up in the violent downpour of rain.
George Matthew Adams Words for All Occasions
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No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
Ben Jonson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations: 14,266 Thoughts on the Business of Life
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If it is very painful for you to criticize your friends, you are safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that is the time to hold your tongue.
Alice Miller Words for All Occasions
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Age gives good advice when it is no longer able to give a bad example.
American proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
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Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at the present.
English proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
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A man is often a bad adviser to himself and a good adviser to another.
Irish proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
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Wisdom is the art of providing a perfect solution simply, instead of trying to give lots of answers or ideas.
Thomas Leonard July 29, 1997 DailyCoach from Coach University
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Anger hears no counsel.
German proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
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A mature man is his own judge. In the end, his only form of support is being faithful to his own convictions. The advice of others may be welcomed invaluable, but it does not free him from responsibility.
Dag Hammarskjold Thoughts on Leadership: A Treasury of Quotations
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Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.
Lord Chesterfield The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
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He who seeks advice seldom errs.
Phillipine proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
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No one is wise enough to advise himself.
German proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
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Ask advice from everyone, but act with your own mind.
Yiddish proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
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A word spoken in due season, how good it is!
King Solomon Proverbs 15:23
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A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
William Penn The Book of Positive Quotations
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As I sat there, I thought about how often we put right keys into wrong locks, and wrong keys into right locks, and right keys into right locks without knowing about the sligh twist to the left before the turn to the right. I was reminded of times when I've followed the advice of an "expert" who supposedly knows the way, only to find that the directions are garbled, or that they work for the expert but not for me, and I have to find my own path through the woods.
Eloise Ristad A Soprano on Her Head
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Friendly counsel cuts off many foes.
William Shakespeare, from King Henry VI Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
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Anger and haste hinder good counsel.
English proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
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He who builds according to every man's advice will have a crooked house.
Danish proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
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Give neither advice nor salt, until you are asked for it.
English proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
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Advice after the mischief is like medicine after death.
Danish proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
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A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
Edgar Watson Howe Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations
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Faithful are the wounds of a friend.
King Solomon Proverbs 27:6, Holy Bible
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He asks advice in vain who will not follow it.
French proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
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Ask for advice but do what you think is best.
Greek proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
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Advising is easier than helping.
German proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
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Advice to a fool goes in one ear and out the other.
Danish proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
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It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again because there is no effort without error and shortcomings, who knows the great devotion, who spends himself in a worth cause, who at best knows in the end the high achievement of triumph and who at worst, if he fails while daring greatly, knows his place shall never be with those timid and cold souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt Bits & Pieces magazine
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