Famous Advice Quotes - Famous Quotes about Advice
1) Avoid fried meats which angry up the blood.
2) If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts.
3) Keep the juices flowing by jangling around gently as you move.
4) Go very light on the vices, such as carrying on in society. The social ramble ain't restful.
5) Avoid running at all times.
6) Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.
- Satchel Paige
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A word to the wise ain't necessary. It's the stupid ones who need the advice.
- Bill Cosby
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Advice is judged by results, not by intentions.
- Cicero
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Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take.
- Josh Billings
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Advice is like snow; the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least.
- Lord Chesterfield
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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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Advice: the smallest current coin.
- Ambrose Bierce
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Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind - listen to the birds. And don't hate nobody.
- Eubie Blake
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Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.
- Seneca
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Don't ask the barber whether you need a haircut.
- Daniel Greenberg
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Don't give a woman advice; one should never give a woman anything she can't wear in the evening.
- Oscar Wilde
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Friends praise your abilities to the skies, submit to you in argument, and seem to have the greatest deference for you; but, though they may ask it, you never find them following your advice upon their own affairs; nor allowing you to manage your own.
- William Lamb Melbourne
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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
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He that won't be counselled can't be helped.
- Benjamin Franklin
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I always advise people never to give advice.
- P. G. Wodehouse
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I pray thee cease thy counsel,
Which falls into mine ears as profitless
as water in a sieve.
- William Shakespeare
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I've always followed my father's advice: he told me, first to always keep my word and, second, to never insult anybody unintentionally. If I insult you, you can be goddamn sure I intend to. And, third, he told me not to go around looking for trouble.
- John Wayne
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In those days he was wiser than he is now--he used frequently to take my advice.
- Sir Winston Churchill
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It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.
- Pythagoras
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It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
- Aeschylus
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It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.
- Jawaharlal Nehru
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It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.
- Aesop
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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
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Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
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The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.
- Sir Arthur Helps
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The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde
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The worst men often give the best advice.
- Philip James Bailey
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There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and a flatterer.
- Francis Bacon
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We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.
- William Rounseville Alger
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Whenever a man seeks your advice he generally seeks your praise.
- Lord Chesterfield
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Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
- Benjamin Franklin
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Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
- Proverb
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