Bad Advice Quotes

• Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Inspirational, Funny, Birthday

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• . . . if you can tell the difference between good advice and bad advice, you don't need advice.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Differences, Advice, Needs

  Dr. Laurence J. Peter (2013). “Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times”, p.44, Harper Collins

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• "Be yourself" is about the worst advice you can give some people.

  Thomas Lansing Masson

  Funny, Life, Being Yourself

  "American Treasury, 1455-1955". Book by Clifton Fadiman, p. 791, 1955.

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• The worst men often give the best advice.

  Francis Bacon

  Inspirational, Men, Giving

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• Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.

  Agatha Christie

  Inspirational, Christian, Mother And Daughter

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• Most people struggle financially because they take advice from sales people, not rich people.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Success, Money

  FaceBook post by Robert Kiyosaki from Jun 01, 2012

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• A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Life, Wise

  Twitter post from Oct 30, 2009

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• There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.

  Sophocles

  Advice, Hateful

  Sophocles, Francis Fergusson (1969). “Electra: A Version for the Modern Stage”

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• Bad advice is often most fatal to the adviser.

  Aulus Persius Flaccus

  Advice, Adviser

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• There are as many forms of advice as there are colors of the rainbow. Remember that good advice can come from bad people and bad advice from good people. The important thing about advice is that it is simply that. Advice.

  Al Franken

  Color, People, Rainbow

  Al Franken (2002). “Oh, the Things I Know!”, p.16, Penguin

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• It's hard to make out the difference between insults and bad advice.

  Cass McCombs

  Differences, Advice, Insult

  "Cass McCombs: Cagey singer-songwriter coughs up a few words". Interview with Delfin Vigil, www.sfgate.com. November 22, 2007.

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• He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

  Francis Bacon

  Hands, Giving, Advice

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• It's just that it's mind-boggling to me how many people I encounter every day who are struggling to subsist on a diet of bad advice about fake solutions to nonexistent problems.

  Merlin Mann

  Struggle, People, Fake

  "Kung Fu Grippe" personal blog, www.kungfugrippe.com. 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, Advice, Useless

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• Old men are always advising young men to save money. That is bad advice. Don't save every nickel. Invest in yourself. I never saved a dollar until I was forty years old.

  Henry Ford

  Money, Men, Years

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• A good man giving bad advice is more dangerous than a nasty man giving bad advice.

  Conor Cruise O'Brien

  Men, Giving, Advice

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• It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

  Publilius Syrus

  Advice, Changed

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• A man who works evil against another works it really against himself, and bad advice is worst for the one who devised it

  Hesiod

  Men, Evil, Advice

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• Probably all of my advice is bad advice.

  Kurt Braunohler

  Advice

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Ill customs and bad advice are seldom forgotten.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Advice, Forgotten, Ill

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

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• I didn't go Hollywood on the outside with flashy cars, upstairs maids and mink covered bathroom fixtures. I went Hollywood on the inside and that's worst of all. I tried to avoid being natural. I lowered my voice. I copied the mannerisms of other stars. I struck poses. I received bad advice - from dramatic coaches, from agents, and from studio executives. I stopped being a human being. I blame myself and I blame Hollywood's star system.

  Joan Caulfield

  Stars, Character, Voice

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I wish I could tell you to always follow your heart, but I think it is bad advice. You have a heart, yes, it is true, but also a brain and also a soul. I've come to believe that we love with our brains as much as our hearts. Real Love is not just instinct, but intent...... From year to year, you may not always be the same Jane. This is perfectly normal. A Jane is many Janes in a lifetime.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Real, Believe, Heart

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• What I find to be very bad advice is the snappy little sentence, 'Write what you know.' It is the most tiresome and stupid advice that could possibly be given. If we write simply about what we know we never grow. We don't develop any facility for languages, or an interest in others, or a desire to travel and explore and face experience head-on. We just coil tighter and tighter into our boring little selves. What one should write about is what interests one.

  Annie Proulx

  Stupid, Writing, Self

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• I’d compare stock pickers to astrologers but I don’t want to bad mouth astrologers.

  Eugene Fama

  Astrology, Investing, Mouths

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• Any other town you go to there's this little devil and a little angel on your shoulder. A little good advice, a little bad advice.You go to Las Vegas, there's like a devil and a devil and they're just battling it out the whole time. It's like, "Smoke some crack!" "Get a hooker!" And then I go, "YEA! Yea, this is a good town. Smoke some crack and get a hooker! Alright!"

  Bill Burr

  Funny, Angel, Vegas

  "Premium Blend", series 2, episode 3, June 20, 1998.

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