Don't take advice from people with missing fingers.
Henry BeadThe 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 CooperMost people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.
Kahlil GibranAccept good advice gracefully - as long as it doesn't interfere with what you intended to do in the first place.
Gene BrownGet some dance lessons [on his advice to Keith Jack from any dream will do]
John BarrowmanFew 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 DysonIf 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 GainesMy advice if you insist on slimming: Eat as much as you like-just don't swallow it.
Harry SecombeMy advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.
SocratesOld people like to give good advice, as solace for no longer being able to provide bad examples.
Duc De La RochefoucauldAs time passes we all get better at blazing a trail through the thicket of advice.
Margot BennettSome people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.
Gordon DicksonThere 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 SmithIf 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 FeuerbachMen give away nothing so liberally as their advice
Duc De La RochefoucauldI 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 ClarkeI 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 MaughamDon'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 DobsonA 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 HoweTo be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility (Advice to Young Men)
William CobbettAdvice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
Erica JongTake the first advice of a woman and not the second.
Gilbertus Cognatus NoxeranusMany receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
Harper LeeDying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.
W Somerset MaughamI 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 TrumanI 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 FlemingMany receive advice, few profit by it. - Maxims
Publilius SyrusHaving 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. LittrellWhen 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 BombeckHe was too good. I would suggest to his next opponent that he doesn't look to me for advice [on losing to Federer]
Andre AgassiAdvice is a dangerous gift, even to the wise from the wise, and all courses may run ill.
J R R TolkienIt 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 BurgerWhen a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him.
Josh BillingsFriendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
Robert LyndJust pray for a tough hide and a tender heart. [advice on how to get through life well]
Ruth GrahamCan Love be controlled by advice? (The Beggar's Opera 1728)
John GayMy mother is the smartest woman I know. Her best advice was 'To thine own self be true'. She thought Polonius was much maligned.
Ben AffleckGood advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
Duc De La RochefoucauldThe 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 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 ClarkeAdvice is like castor oil, easy to give, but dreadful to take.
Josh BillingsMy advice, Be healthy, reach your own goals and don't be afraid to impersonate a SNL star...
Teri HatcherIt has been well observed that few are better qualified to give others advice than those who have taken the least of it themselves
Oliver GoldsmithAlthough 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 MehtaAdvice to persons about to marry - Don't!
Henry MayhewThere is life outside Madame Tussauds [on advice to tourists]
Joseph FiennesYour 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 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 BonaparteTo Cole Porter: listen kid, take my advice, never hate a song that has sold half a million copies
Irving BerlinDon'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
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