As time passes we all get better at blazing a trail through the thicket of advice.
Margot BennettAdvice to persons about to marry - Don't!
Henry MayhewIt 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 BurgerCan Love be controlled by advice? (The Beggar's Opera 1728)
John GayThe 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 McGregorI 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 FlemingWhen 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 RowlandI 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 ClarkeIf 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 GainesTake the first advice of a woman and not the second.
Gilbertus Cognatus NoxeranusI 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 TrumanYour 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 BarryDying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.
W Somerset MaughamMy advice, Be healthy, reach your own goals and don't be afraid to impersonate a SNL star...
Teri HatcherHe was too good. I would suggest to his next opponent that he doesn't look to me for advice [on losing to Federer]
Andre AgassiAlthough 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 MehtaTo ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery (Maxims and Reflections)
John CollinsGet some dance lessons [on his advice to Keith Jack from any dream will do]
John BarrowmanThe 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 CooperHaving 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. LittrellMy mother is the smartest woman I know. Her best advice was 'To thine own self be true'. She thought Polonius was much maligned.
Ben AffleckAdvice is a dangerous gift, even to the wise from the wise, and all courses may run ill.
J R R TolkienDon't take advice from people with missing fingers.
Henry BeadWhen 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 BombeckDon'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 RiversA word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.
Bill CosbyMy advice would be: if you want to pursue a career in the music business, don't
X FactorA 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 BonaparteFew 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 DysonIt has been well observed that few are better qualified to give others advice than those who have taken the least of it themselves
Oliver GoldsmithMy advice if you insist on slimming: Eat as much as you like-just don't swallow it.
Harry SecombeThere is life outside Madame Tussauds [on advice to tourists]
Joseph FiennesThe advice I would give them [graduates] is whatever you are going to do, if you don't enjoy it, don't do it.
Philip GreenMost people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.
Kahlil GibranThe 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 DunhamI 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 ClarkeAccept good advice gracefully - as long as it doesn't interfere with what you intended to do in the first place.
Gene BrownWhen we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
Saul BellowI 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 MaughamMen give away nothing so liberally as their advice
Duc De La RochefoucauldJust pray for a tough hide and a tender heart. [advice on how to get through life well]
Ruth GrahamAdvice is like castor oil, easy to give, but dreadful to take.
Josh BillingsFriendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
Robert LyndYou can seduce a man without taking anything off, without even touching him. [any advice how, Rae Dawn Chong?]
Rae Dawn ChongAdvice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
Erica JongIf 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 FeuerbachUnruly ambition is deaf, not only to the advice of friends, but to the counsels and monitions of reason itself.
Sir Roger L'EstrangeOld people like to give good advice, as solace for no longer being able to provide bad examples.
Duc De La RochefoucauldGood advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
Duc De La RochefoucauldAdvice 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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