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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.
Socrates

Take the first advice of a woman and not the second.
Gilbertus Cognatus Noxeranus

Advice to persons about to marry - Don't!
Henry Mayhew

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.
Joan Rivers

As time passes we all get better at blazing a trail through the thicket of advice.
Margot Bennett

Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
Robert Lynd

Accept good advice gracefully - as long as it doesn't interfere with what you intended to do in the first place.
Gene Brown

Although I am flexible and ready to take advice, I can't carry an umbrella of thoughts over my head that would distract me and affect my music making.
Zubin Mehta

There is life outside Madame Tussauds [on advice to tourists]
Joseph Fiennes

Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.
Kahlil Gibran

If someone gives you so-called good advice, do the opposite; you can be sure it will be the right thing nine out of ten times.
Anselm Feuerbach

I have been trying to point out that in our lives chance may have an astonishing influence and, if I may offer advice to the young laboratory worker, it would be this - never to neglect an extraordinary appearance or happening.
Alexander Fleming

Get some dance lessons [on his advice to Keith Jack from any dream will do]
John Barrowman

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

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

The best piece of advice I ever got came from my agent, who told me to stop slagging off studio heads when I'm doing interviews.
Ewan McGregor

The best career advice given to the young is: 'Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it'
Katherine Dunham

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

Having lived in China for 4 years, working as an HR manager in a Chinese company,
I'm somewhat uncomfortable being associated with the horde of academic locusts that have descended upon China, spent a week there, and came back to give advice as an expert on China. There are no experts on China.
Dr. Romie F. Littrell

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

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

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

When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him.
Josh Billings

There is one piece of advice, in a life of study, which I think no one will object to; and that is, every now and then to be completely idle - to do nothing at all.
Sydney Smith

To Cole Porter: listen kid, take my advice, never hate a song that has sold half a million copies
Irving Berlin

He was too good. I would suggest to his next opponent that he doesn't look to me for advice [on losing to Federer]
Andre Agassi

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

It is not unprofessional to give free legal advice, but advertising that the first visit will be free is a bit like a fox telling chickens he will not bite them until they cross the threshold of the hen house.
Warren Burger

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice
Duc De La Rochefoucauld

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery (Maxims and Reflections)
John Collins

I do think there is a sense of Tony Blair having lost his sense of purpose and direction, so my advice to him is to recover that sense of purpose and direction and that remains the best option
Charles Clarke

Many receive advice, few profit by it. - Maxims
Publilius Syrus

My mother is the smartest woman I know. Her best advice was 'To thine own self be true'. She thought Polonius was much maligned.
Ben Affleck

Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro.
Dave Barry

A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice [now, is giving a good scare a piece of good advice, which could lead to a philosophical conundrum?]
Edward Howe

When your mother asks, 'Do you want a piece of advice?' it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway.
Erma Bombeck

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

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

I trust that whoever leads the Conservative Party actually pays regard to my advice on how we should conduct ourselves and I personally will obviously support whoever eventually wins.
Kenneth Clarke

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
Harry S Truman

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

You can seduce a man without taking anything off, without even touching him. [any advice how, Rae Dawn Chong?]
Rae Dawn Chong

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

My advice would be: if you want to pursue a career in the music business, don't
X Factor

Can Love be controlled by advice? (The Beggar's Opera 1728)
John Gay

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

To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility (Advice to Young Men)
William Cobbett

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
Harper Lee

The main thing in HIPs is an energy rating for the home - just like you get for a fridge or a washing machine - with advice on how to cut your carbon emissions and your fuel bills too.
Yvette Cooper

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



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