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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A journalist is a grumbler, a censurer, a giver of advice, a regent of sovereigns, a tutor of nations. Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets
Napoleon Bonaparte

If I were to give one piece of advice, I would say to never accept anything that you hear or see at face value. As a general rule of thumb, then the more you question, the better.
Ernest Gaines

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

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

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

Old people like to give good advice, as solace for no longer being able to provide bad examples.
Duc De La Rochefoucauld

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

If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice.
Norman Augustine

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

Few influential people involved with the Internet claim that it is a good in and of itself. It is a powerful tool for solving social problems, just as it is a tool for making money, finding lost relatives, receiving medical advice, or, come to that, trading instructions for making bombs.
Esther Dyson

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

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

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

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

It has been well observed that few are better qualified to give others advice than those who have taken the least of it themselves
Oliver Goldsmith

Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without. [Advice to those preparing for marriage]
James C Dobson

A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
Edgar Watson Howe

The advice I would give them [graduates] is whatever you are going to do, if you don't enjoy it, don't do it.
Philip Green

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

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

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.
Thornton Wilder

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

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

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
Erica Jong

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

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

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

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

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

My advice, Be healthy, reach your own goals and don't be afraid to impersonate a SNL star...
Teri Hatcher

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

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

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

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

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

When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his good judgment, but his charming manners, that won her heart.
Helen Rowland

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

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart. [advice on how to get through life well]
Ruth Graham

A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.
Bill Cosby

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. - Of Human Bondage
W Somerset Maugham

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



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