My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.
SocratesTake the first advice of a woman and not the second.
Gilbertus Cognatus NoxeranusAdvice to persons about to marry - Don't!
Henry MayhewDon'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 RiversAs time passes we all get better at blazing a trail through the thicket of advice.
Margot BennettFriendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
Robert LyndAccept good advice gracefully - as long as it doesn't interfere with what you intended to do in the first place.
Gene BrownAlthough 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 MehtaThere is life outside Madame Tussauds [on advice to tourists]
Joseph FiennesMost people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.
Kahlil GibranIf 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 FeuerbachI 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 FlemingGet some dance lessons [on his advice to Keith Jack from any dream will do]
John BarrowmanUnruly ambition is deaf, not only to the advice of friends, but to the counsels and monitions of reason itself.
Sir Roger L'EstrangeDying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.
W Somerset MaughamThe 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 McGregorThe 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 DunhamAdvice is like castor oil, easy to give, but dreadful to take.
Josh BillingsHaving 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. LittrellAdvice is like snow; the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSome people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.
Gordon DicksonBe yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.
J B PriestleyWhen a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him.
Josh BillingsThere 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 SmithTo Cole Porter: listen kid, take my advice, never hate a song that has sold half a million copies
Irving BerlinHe was too good. I would suggest to his next opponent that he doesn't look to me for advice [on losing to Federer]
Andre AgassiWhen we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
Saul BellowIt 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 BurgerMen give away nothing so liberally as their advice
Duc De La RochefoucauldTo ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery (Maxims and Reflections)
John CollinsI 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 ClarkeMany receive advice, few profit by it. - Maxims
Publilius SyrusMy mother is the smartest woman I know. Her best advice was 'To thine own self be true'. She thought Polonius was much maligned.
Ben AffleckYour 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 BarryA 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 HoweWhen 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 BombeckI 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 GlasgowDon't take advice from people with missing fingers.
Henry BeadI 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 ClarkeI 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 TrumanTo profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.
Wilson MiznerYou can seduce a man without taking anything off, without even touching him. [any advice how, Rae Dawn Chong?]
Rae Dawn ChongAdvice is a dangerous gift, even to the wise from the wise, and all courses may run ill.
J R R TolkienMy advice would be: if you want to pursue a career in the music business, don't
X FactorCan Love be controlled by advice? (The Beggar's Opera 1728)
John GayMy advice if you insist on slimming: Eat as much as you like-just don't swallow it.
Harry SecombeTo be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility (Advice to Young Men)
William CobbettMany receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
Harper LeeThe 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 CooperGood advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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