Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.
Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC)
It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from
offering them advice.
Anne Tyler (1941 - ), Celestial Navigation, 1974
People who ask our advice almost never take it. Yet we should never
refuse to give it, upon request, for it often helps us to see our own
way more clearly.
Brendan Francis
Ask advice only of your equals.
Danish Proverb
Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to
follow it.
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950), Letters
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at
present.
English Proverb
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we
didn't.
Erica Jong
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad
example.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very
best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
Never give advice unless asked.
German Proverb
Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the
wall instead of using it.
Gordon R. Dickson
There is no human problem which could not be solved if people
would simply do as I advise.
Gore Vidal (1925 - )
The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given
it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never
persist in trying to set people right.
Hannah Whitall Smith, 1902
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 (1884 - 1972)
The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is
never any use to oneself.
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.
Philip K. Dick (1928 - 1982), What The Dead Men Say, 1964
The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve; we
must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right or
wrong.
Pierre Charron
Many receive advice, few profit by it.
Publilius Syrus (~100 BC), Maxims
Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of
trouble.
Sidney J. Harris
In giving advice, seek to help, not please, your friend.
Solon (638 BC - 559 BC)
Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.
Spanish Proverb
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