Advice Quotes - Page 23

• The brain may take advice, but not the heart, and love, having no geography, knows no boundaries: weight and sink it deep, no matter, it will rise and find the surface.

  Truman Capote

  Heart, Brain, And Love

  Truman Capote (2007). “Other Voices, Other Rooms”, p.124, Vintage

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• The only difference between a cult and a religion is the amount of real estate they own” “Stupidity has a certain charm - ignorance does not” “My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can” “It would be easier to pay off the national debt overnight than to neutralize the long-range effects of our national stupidity” “Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.

  Frank Zappa

  Children, Real, Ignorance

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• It costs nothing to ask wise advice from a good friend.

  George S. Clason

  Wise, Good Friend, Cost

  George S. Clason (2013). “The Richest Man In Babylon”, p.16, Lulu.com

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• Advice is one thing that is freely given away, but watch that you only take what is worth having.

  George S. Clason

  Watches, Given, Richest Man In Babylon

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• The only advice I can give you is what you're telling yourself. Only, maybe you're too scared to listen.

  Neil Gaiman

  Giving, Scared, I Can

  Neil Gaiman (2010). “Neverwhere”, p.138, Hachette UK

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• me giving my mom romantic advice is kind of like a goldfish giving a snail advice on how to fly.” -Will Grayson (pg. 66)

  David Levithan

  Mom, Giving, Goldfish

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• Garrett," said Stendahl, "do you know why I've done this to you? Because you burned Mr. Poe's books without really reading them. You took other people's advice that they needed burning. Otherwise you'd have realized what I was going to do to you when we came down here a moment ago. Ignorance is fatal, Mr. Garrett.

  Ray Bradbury

  Book, Reading, Ignorance

  Ray Bradbury (2000). “Bradbury Stories”

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• Few things are so liberally bestowed, or squandered with so little effect, as good advice.

  Samuel Johnson

  Littles, Good Advice, Effects

  Samuel Johnson (1848). “The Wisdom of the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler”, p.201

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• My advice for aspiring writers is go to New York. And if you can’t go to New York, go to the place that represents New York to you, where the standards for writing are high, there are other people who share your dreams, and where you can talk, talk, talk about your interests. Writing books begins in talking about it, like most human projects, and in being close to those who have already done what you propose to do.

  Walter Kirn

  Dream, New York, Book

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• One last word of advice, though, Mr. Okada, though you may not want to hear this. There are things in this world it is better not to know about. Of course, those are the very things that people most want to know about. It's strange.

  Haruki Murakami

  People, World, May

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• Vanity is so frequently the apparent motive of advice that we, for the most part, summon our powers to oppose it without very accurate inquiry whether it is right. It is sufficient that another is growing great in his own eyes at our expense, and assumes authority over us without our permission; for many would contentedly suffer the consequences of their own mistakes, rather than the insolence of him who triumphs as their deliverer.

  Samuel Johnson

  Mistake, Eye, Vanity

  Samuel Johnson (1824). “The works of Samuel Johnson”, p.99

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• The fourth way to get a boy to like you is to be yourself. Now, I am contractually obligated as an adult to give that advice, even though it doesn't work. But yeah, be yourself, even though no one has any idea what it means to be yourself. Like whose self would I otherwise be being?

  John Green

  Being Yourself, Mean, Boys

  YouTube Chanel "vlogbrothers" / "How to Make Guys Like You", www.youtube.com. February 24, 2009.

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• Stupid people always ignored good advice

  Johanna Lindsey

  Stupid, People, Ignored

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• No man tells his opinion so freely as when he imagines it received with implicit veneration.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Opinion, Imagine

  Samuel Johnson (1756). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.82

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• A word of advice, Will Henry. When a person of the female gender says she wants to show you something, run the other way. The odds are it is not something you wish to see.

  Rick Yancey

  Running, Odds, Wish

  Rick Yancey (2010). “The Curse of the Wendigo”, p.193, Simon and Schuster

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• The desire of advising has a very extensive prevalence; and, since advice cannot be given but to those that will hear it, a patient listener is necessary to the accommodation of all those who desire to be confirmed in the opinion of their own wisdom: a patient listener, however, is not always to be had; the present age, whatever age is present, is so vitiated and disordered, that young people are readier to talk than to attend, and good counsel is only thrown away upon those who are full of their own perfections.

  Samuel Johnson

  People, Perfection, Age

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1811). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes”, p.174

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• Avoid contradicting in general, especially people you love.

  Maurice Baring

  People, Contradicting

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• It is the privilege of adults to give advice. It is the privilege of youth not to listen. Both avail themselves of their privileges, and the world rocks along.

  Dominique Sutton

  Rocks, Giving, Age

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• The best advice I can give people when they buy Burgundy, which is a bit of a roulette game, is to look for producers who are tried and true... Look for the name of the producer, whether Michel Lafarge, Domaine Leflaivre, Dominique Lafont, or another. When they put their name on the bottle, they're proud.

  Daniel Johnnes

  Wine, Games, Names

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• Never find your delight in another's misfortune.

  Publilius Syrus

  Carpe Diem, Delight, Misfortunes

  "The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave: From the Latin". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 467, 1856.

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• If you go in for argument take care of your temper. Your logic if you have any will take care of itself.

  Joseph P. Farrell

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• It is better to have a little than nothing.

  Publilius Syrus

  Littles, Nothingness

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• If you are out of trouble, watch for danger.

  Sophocles

  Watches, Trouble, Danger

  David Grene, Sophocles (1959). “Sophocles”, [Chicago] : University of Chicago Press

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• Eat bread at pleasure, drink wine by measure.

  Randle Cotgrave

  Wine, Bread, Drink

  Randle COTGRAVE (1660). “A Dictionarie of the French and English tongues. Containing also"Briefe directions for such as desire to learne the French tongue."With a plate”, p.730

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• I believe Jack Smith might have written THE BOOK on writing and revising for publication. Clean, direct, succinct--a book that is full of pure wisdom and truth, but also amazing technical advice.

  Virgil Suarez

  Believe, Book, Writing

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