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Quotes about Advice
CP Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French author & moralist (1613 - 1680)
The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde, Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900)
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong
CP There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
- Gore Vidal, US author & dramatist (1925 - )
Many receive advice, few profit by it.
- Publilius Syrus, (~100 BC)
Never give advice unless asked.
- German Proverb
Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.
- Edna St. Vincent Millay, US poet (1892 - 1950)
It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.
- Anne Tyler, US novelist (1941 - )
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
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
- English Proverb
Ask advice only of your equals.
- Danish Proverb
In giving advice, seek to help, not please, your friend.
- Solon, Greek lawgiver & politician in Athens (638 BC - 559 BC)
Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble.
- Sidney J. Harris
CP Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.
- Aesop, Greek slave & fable author (620 BC - 560 BC)
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
Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.
- Spanish Proverb
Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.
- Philip K. Dick, US science fiction author (1928 - 1982)
CP 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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