Advise Quotes

• The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Witty, Badass, Mistake

  The New York Times Magazine, October 04, 1953.

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• When you advise any person you should be guided by the fear of God.

  Abu Bakr

  Should, Caliphs, Persons

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• Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married. Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. He that has no children brings them up well

  Germaine Greer

  Children, War, Love You

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• We are so happy to advise others that occasionally we even do it in their interest.

  Jules Renard

  Interest

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• Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.

  Leo Rosten

  Philosophical, Heart, Sight

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• And in doing this I advise you to send to the best manors of your lands those of your household in whom you place most confidence to be present in August at the leading of the corn, and to guard it as aforesaid.

  Robert Grosseteste

  August, Land, Corn

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• We are guilty for sending teams into foreign countries to advise them how to be like us.

  Arthur Erickson

  Country, Team, Guilty

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• If we still advise we shall never do.

  Elizabeth I

  Stills, Ifs

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• I don't advise a haircut, man. All hairdressers are in the employment of the government. Hairs are your aerials. They pick up signals from the cosmos, and transmit them directly into the brain. This is the reason bald-headed men are uptight.

  Bruce Robinson

  Men, Hair, Brain

  Bruce Robinson (2015). “Withnail and I”, p.33, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The rule of law should be upheld by all political parties. They should neither advise others to break the law, nor encourage others to do so even when they strongly disagree with the legislation put forward by the government of the day.

  James Callaghan

  Party, Government, Law

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• I elect to stay on the soil of which I was born and on the plot of ground which I have fairly bought and honestly paid for. Don't advise me to leave, and don't add insult to injury by telling me it's for my own good; of that I am to be the judge.

  Robert Purvis

  Insult To Injury, Judging, Soil

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• I would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them - without a thought about publication - and only in the last draft to consider how the work will look from the outside.

  Anne Tyler

  Writing, Looks, Lasts

  Author Q&A by Penguin Random House, www.penguinrandomhouse.com.

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• 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

  Funny, Leadership, Witty

  Television interview by Edward R. Murrow, CBS, 27 May 1955

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• Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married.

  Abigail Van Buren

  War, Married

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  I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

  Les Brown

  Inspirational, Motivational, Running

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• One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Safety, Advice, Port

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• She had said one time, make a choice and do it like Hercules. So if that is all of what is being offered, the idea is to always do it like Hercules and I always followed her advise and now I'm here talking to you.

  Harvey Keitel

  Talking, Ideas, Choices

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• I would advise all youths aspiring to athletic fame or a professional career to practice clean living, fair play and good sportsmanship.

  Major Taylor

  Play, Careers, Practice

  Major Taylor (1928). “The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World: The Story of a Colored Boy's Indomitable Courage and Success Against Great Odds; an Autobiography”

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• There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.

  Gore Vidal

  Inspirational, People, Personality

  FaceBook post by Gore Vidal from Jun 22, 2012

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• It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.

  Charles Dickens

  Girl, Discipline, Advice

  'Bleak House' (1853) ch. 27 (Mr Bagnet)

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• I would advise my young colleagues, the composers of symphonies, to drop in sometimes at the kindergarten, too. It is there that it is decided whether there will be anybody to understand their works in twenty years time.

  Zoltan Kodaly

  Years, Symphony, Twenties

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• Listening is such a simple act. It requires us to be present, and that takes practice, but we don't have to do anything else. We don't have to advise, or coach, or sound wise. We just have to be willing to sit there and listen.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Wise, Simple, Practice

  Margaret J. Wheatley (2010). “Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time (Large Print 16pt)”, p.275, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I always advise people never to give advice.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Inspirational, Humorous, People

  P. G. Wodehouse, D. R. Bensen (1999). “Fore!: The Best of Wodehouse on Golf”, p.91, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Sweet, Mistake, Home

  N.Y. Times Magazine, 4 Oct. 1953

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• A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.

  William Penn

  Friendship, True Friend, Adventure

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2008). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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