Famous Quotes - Tags - Advice

  • ... advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive. More
  • A piece of advice always contains an implicit threat, just as a threat always contains an... More
  • A private should preserve a respectful attitude toward his superiors, and should seldom or never... More
  • Advice is more agreeable in the mouth than in the ear. More
  • Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t. More
  • Advice you take from me comes to you crutched
    Like a beggar youth zealous for old age. More
  • Ah, gentle dames! it gars me greet,
    To think how mony counsels sweet,
    How mony... More
  • All the rest was indefinite, as the soundest advice ever is. More
  • Although this garrulity of advising is born with us, I confess that life is rather a subject of... More
  • Although those notes, in conformity with custom, come after the poem, the reader is advised to... More
  • And they be these: the wood, the weed, the wag.
    The wood is that which makes the gallow... More
  • Ask your neighbor only about things you know better yourself. Then his advice could prove valuable. More
  • Be checked for silence,
    But never taxed for speech. More
  • Bear free and patient thoughts. More
  • Children, confine your lights in jellied rules;
    Resemble graves; be metaphysical... More
  • Consult. To seek another’s approval of a course already decided on. More
  • Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,
    But not expressed in fancy, rich, not gaudy,
    For... More
  • Counsel men to discipline their children, but not to divorce their wives. More
  • Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom. More
  • Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition,
    By that sin fell the angels; how can man... More
  • Do not, as some ungracious pastors do,
    Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven,
    Whilst... More
  • Evil counsel travels fast. More
  • Experience cannot be transferred. We may give wise advice, but we cannot give wisdom to follow it. More
  • First fight. Then fiddle. More
  • Fools think their own way is right, but the wise listen to advice. More
  • For I must tell you friendly in your ear,
    Sell when you can, you are not for all markets. More
  • Franklin said once in one of his inspired flights of malignity—
    Early to bed and early to... More
  • Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice,
    Take each man’s censure, but reserve thy judgment. More
  • Go chase into the house a lucky foot.
    And, O my son, be, on the one hand, good,
    And do... More
  • Good advice is never as helpful as an interest-free loan. More
  • Good medicine is bitter to the taste. More
  • Good medicine is bitter, but it cures illness. More
  • Green springs the tree, hemp grows, the wag is wild,
    But when they meet, it makes the timber... More
  • He who does not listen to the words of his elders will surely suffer soon. More
  • He who plays advisor is no longer ambassador. More
  • Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot
    That it do singe yourself. More
  • Hold the high way and let they ghost thee lead
    And Truthe shall deliver, it is no dread. More
  • Honest advice is unpleasant to the ears. More
  • I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself. More
  • I cannot give advice. How can I when I do not authorise success. I authorise it alright. Smile. More
  • I have lived some thirty-odd years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of... More
  • I pray thee, cease thy counsel,
    Which falls into mine ears as profitless
    As water in a... More
  • I shall th’effect of this good lesson keep
    As watchman to my heart. More
  • I wish to God that you had as much pleasure in following my advice, as I have in giving it to you. More
  • If I had a thousand sons, the first humane principle I would
    teach them should be, to... More
  • If one ventures a word with you, will you be offended? But who can keep from speaking? More
  • If we still advise we shall never do. More
  • If you can fill the unforgiving minute
    With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
    Yours... More
  • if you ever, ever, dare
    To stop a grizzly bear,
    You will never meet another grizzly bear. More
  • In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody’s... More
  • It is a good divine that follows his own instructions; I can easier teach twenty what were good... More
  • It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that... More
  • It is always a matter, my darling,
    Of life or death, as I had forgotten. I wish
    What I... More
  • It is an imprudence common to kings to listen to too much advice and to err in their choice. More
  • It is as often a weakness in the aged to dictate to the young, as it is folly in the young to... More
  • It is sometimes a point of as much cleverness to know to make good use of advice from others as... More
  • I’m not a teacher: only a fellow-traveller of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead—ahead... More
  • I’ve been asked to give some words of advice for young women entering library/information... More
  • Kill thy physician, and the fee bestow
    Upon the foul disease. More
  • Let go thy hold when a great wheel runs down a hill lest it break thy neck with following; but... More
  • Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a... More
  • Listen, little boy. In this business, there’s only one law you gotta follow to keep outta... More
  • Love all, trust a few,
    Do wrong to none. More
  • Love moderately: long love doth so. More
  • Make less thy body hence, and more thy grace.
    Leave gormandizing; know the grave doth... More
  • Men may conseile a womman to be oon,
    But conseiling nis no comandement.
    He putte it in... More
  • Men
    Can counsel and speak comfort to that grief
    Which they themselves not feel; but,... More
  • My tale is of a cock, as ye may hear,
    That took his counsel of his wife, with sorrow,
    To... More
  • Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
    For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
    And... More
  • Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties. More
  • Nothing is permanent in this wicked world—not even our troubles. More
  • O Lord, I could have stayed here all the night
    To hear good counsel. O, what learning is! More
  • O that men’s ears should be
    To counsel deaf, but not to flattery! More
  • Of course I want to be good, but that may not be to your advantage. More
  • One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not... More
  • Parents cannot expect advice to have the same force upon their children as experience has upon... More
  • Pause awhile,
    And let my counsel sway you in this case. More
  • Put on your rubbers and you won’t catch cold.
    Here’s hell, there’s heaven. Go to Sunday... More
  • Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing. More
  • Say “Yessum” to the ladies, an’ “Yessur” to the men,
    And when they’s company,... More
  • Seems like everything people oughta know they just don’t want to hear. I guess that’s the big... More
  • Sincere advice may offend the ear but is beneficial to one’s conduct. More
  • Some of these people need ten years of therapy—ten sentences of mine do not equal ten years of... More
  • Speak as you think, be what you are, pay your debts of all kinds. I prefer to be owned as sound... More
  • Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether. More
  • That man has offered me unsolicited advice for six years, most of it bad. More
  • The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best... More
  • The Gospel of the army is cunning, as of all other human activities. The wisdom of the snake... More
  • The most consistent gift and burden of motherhood is advice. More
  • The robbed that smiles steals something from the thief;
    He robs himself that spends a... More
  • The symbol in Chinese for crisis is made up of two ideographs: one means danger, the other means... More
  • Then let yourself love all that you take delight in
    Accept yourself whole, accept the... More
  • There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth... More
  • There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad. More
  • There is nothing men are so generous of as advice. More
  • There is nothing more hateful than bad advice. More
  • These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep... More
  • This above all: to thine own self be true,
    And it must follow, as the night the day,
    Thou... More
  • This age-old truth I to thee impart
    Act according to the dictates of your art
    Because if... More
  • Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
    Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel. More

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