Advice Quotes - Page 6

• A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.

  E. W. Howe

  Wise, Motivation, Fear

  "The last word on Fear" by AC Grayling, www.theguardian.com. October 29, 1999.

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• I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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• Don'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

  Wise, Wisdom, Thinking

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• Even the ablest pilots are willing to receive advice from passengers in tempestuous weather.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Weather, Pilots, Passengers

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• A fop sometimes gives important advice.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Giving, Important, Sometimes

  "The Art of Poetry (Canto IV)". Book by Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, 1674.

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• Advice is offensive, not because it lays us open to unexpected regret, or convicts us of any fault which had escaped our notice, but because it shows us that we are known to others as well as to ourselves; and the officious monitor is persecuted with hatred, not because his accusation is false, but because he assumes that superiority which we are not willing to grant him, and has dared to detect what we desired to conceal.

  Samuel Johnson

  Regret, Hatred, Faults

  Samuel Johnson (1811). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes”, p.131

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• Advice is very easy to give, and even easier not to follow, so I don't fool with it.

  Randy Pausch

  Giving, Fool, Easy

  "Oh, The Places You’ll Go, Part 2" by Ian Crouch, www.newyorker.com. June 21, 2010.

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• It seems that bad advice that's fun will always be better known than than good advice that's dull-no matter how useless that fun advice is.

  Scott Berkun

  Fun, Useless, Dull

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• It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.

  Aeschylus

  Giving, Political, Affliction

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• Last week I did a piece for Style on advice to Laura Bush about how to help her husband. This week it's religion. It just depends on what I find interesting at the moment.

  Sally Quinn

  Husband, Interesting, Style

  "Sally Quinn on Author Karen Armstrong". Online Chat, www.washingtonpost.com. March 29, 2006.

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• Women don't like advice. They don't want you to fix their problems, they just want you to listen.

  Shawn Wayans

  Women, Want, Problem

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• The secret counsels of princes are a troublesome burden to such as have only to execute them.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Secret, Burden, Troublesome

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 10-11, Essays, III. 1, 1922.

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• When you talk to the half-wise, twaddle; when you talk to the ignorant, brag; when you talk to the sagacious, look very humble and ask their opinion.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Wise, Humble, Ignorant

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• It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

  Publilius Syrus

  Bad Advice, Changed

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• I mean, I try to say the right things and give the right advice. But still, I'm only a person.

  Jonathan Brandis

  Mean, Giving, Trying

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• Don't give advice unless you're asked.

  Amy Alcott

  Inspirational, Giving

  Amy Alcott (1993). “Amy Alcott's Guide to Women's Golf”, Plume Books

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• Distrust interested advice.

  Aesop

  Distrust

  Aesop (2013). “Aesop's Fables”, p.66, Lulu Press, Inc

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• People do not want advice - they want corroboration.

  John Steinbeck

  Life, People, Want

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• My other advice is to start writing songs and singing right away.

  Jerry Harrison

  Song, Writing, Sight

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• Listen to advice. You don't know how many writer's conferences I've taught at where at least half the audience fights all the conventions of the field.

  Jane Haddam

  Writing, Fighting, Half

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• Never lie down with a woman who's got more troubles than you.

  Nelson Algren

  Lying, Dating, Trouble

  "Alastair Cook gives England total control against shambolic India" by Mike Selvey, www.theguardian.com. August 11, 2011.

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• He had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person.

  Mark Twain

  Vanity, Giving, Persons

  Mark Twain (1992). “The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories”, p.25, Courier Corporation

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• Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.

  Seneca the Younger

  Christian, Men, Giving

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• If I'm in a slump, I ask myself for advice.

  Ichiro Suzuki

  Sports, Slumps, Asks

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• The Muslim leaders swallow the advice of the Western powers and bodies like the IMF and World Bank, even when it is bad for their countries and they know this.

  Abu Bakar Bashir

  Country, Leader, Imf

  "'We Should Not Fear Being Called Radical'". Interview with Farish A. Noor, theseoultimes.com.

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