Advice Quotes - page 2

I always advise people never to give advice. (P. G. Wodehouse)
My advice to people today is as follows: If you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out. View quote
Timothy Leary
Advice is always a confession. View quote
André Maurois
I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career. View quote
Gloria Steinem
We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal. View quote
Oscar Wilde
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself. View quote
Oscar Wilde
I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least. View quote
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway. View quote
John Steinbeck
I hate giving advice, because people won't take it. (Jack Nicholson)
We ask advice, but we mean approbation. View quote
Charles Caleb Colton
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. View quote
Edna St. Vincent Millay
I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both. View quote
Soren Kierkegaard
It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.' View quote
Aldous Huxley
Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take. View quote
Josh Billings
A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice. View quote
James Callaghan
My further advice on your relations to women is based upon that other motto of chivalry, "Serve all, love one." View quote
Honoré de Balzac
A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice. View quote
Bill Cosby
If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice. View quote
Norman Ralph Augustine
No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. What does such advice mean? Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure. Happiness is a glory shining far down upon us out of Heaven. She is a divine dew which the soul, on certain of its summer mornings, feels dropping upon it from the amaranth bloom and golden fruitage of Paradise. (Charlotte Brontë)
I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
We've no use for intellectuals in this outfit. What we need is chimpanzees. Let me give you a word of advice: never say a word to us about being intelligent. We will think for you, my friend. Don't forget it. View quote
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Some of my father's fellow West Pointers once asked him why I turned out so well, his secret in raising me. And he said, "I never gave him any advice, and he never asked for any." We agreed on nothing, but we never quarreled once. View quote
Gore Vidal
Children don't need much advice but they really do need to be listened to and not just with half an ear. View quote
Emma Thompson
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