There is nothing men are so generous of as advice.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
My mother gave lots of good advice and had a lot to say. As you get older, you realize everything she said was true.
~By Lenny Kravitz ~
Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
I don't think of myself as a role model. I do try to live in a compassionate, considerate and positive way. The only advice I can offer is to find what you love to do, find the joy in it, and express yourself through your passion.
~By Barry Williams ~
We will say to people that if you can work, and if you want to work, we will do everything we can to help you. We will give you the training, we will give you the support, we will give you the advice to get you going and get you back at work.
~By David Cameron ~
There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
~By Joseph Addison ~
My characters surprise me constantly. My characters are like my friends - I can give them advice, but they don't have to take it. If your characters are real, then they surprise you, just like real people.
~By Laurell K. Hamilton ~
That is where the irony of the film comes off, in terms of the language it employs - where he tries desperately to be a 'TV Dad,' to give advice and it's so pat it becomes ridiculous.
~By Atom Egoyan ~
A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
~By Joseph Addison ~
When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.
~By Erica Jong ~
It was not possible to broadcast any of that because of an agreement between Jackson and the family. Our legal advice was that we could not broadcast it.
~By Martin Bashir ~
Clearly, we need to have the very best advice and counsel on what actions can be taken to help lower the cost of gasoline.
~By Jeff Bingaman ~
We've no use for intellectuals in this outfit. What we need is chimpanzees. Let me give you a word of advice: never say a word to us about being intelligent. We will think for you, my friend. Don't forget it.
~By Louis-Ferdinand Celine ~
My advice to someone to follow in my footsteps is to have patience. I've been doing this for twelve years.
~By Christina Milian ~
Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.
~By Aesop ~
Great advice comes from people that have been around a lot longer than you.
~By Zac Efron ~
The best money advice ever given me was from my father. When I was a little girl, he told me, 'Don't spend anything unless you have to.'
~By Dinah Shore ~
A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
~By Edward W. Howe ~
No one can give you better advice than yourself.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
Generally speaking, when a woman offers unsolicited advice or tries to help a man, she has no idea of how critical and unloving he may sound to him.
~By John Gray ~
It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
Good advice is one of those injuries which a good man ought, if possible, to forgive, but at all events to forget at once.
~By Horace Smith ~
Anybody who thinks talk is cheap should get some legal advice.
~By Franklin P. Jones ~
Know when to speak - for many times it brings danger, to give the best advice to kings.
~By Robert Herrick ~
A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice.
~By James Callaghan ~
The Athenians are right to accept advice from anyone, since it is incumbent on everyone to share in that sort of excellence, or else there can be no city at all.
~By Protagoras ~
Advice to persons about to marry - don't.
~By Henry Mayhew ~
Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
~By Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~
Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.
~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
Never feel that a piece of criticism or advice is too much trouble to give, or that it exceeds your province.
~By Lord Mountbatten ~
One of the advantages of being a captain is being able to ask for advice without necessarily having to take it.
~By William Shatner ~
It's queer how ready people always are with advice in any real or imaginary emergency, and no matter how many times experience has shown them to be wrong, they continue to set forth their opinions, as if they had received them from the Almighty!
~By Anne Sullivan ~
It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
~By Aeschylus ~
What exists outside is a man's concern; let no woman give advice; and do no mischief within doors.
~By Aeschylus ~
His advice to me is basically to just love what you do and don't let the fear of failure stop you.
~By Oliver Hudson ~
No one wants advice - only corroboration.
~By John Steinbeck ~
This character in the film, these things that he says which sound like advice and wise things, they are very common for Orientals. It's all the tradition.
~By Omar Sharif ~
My advice to kids is give it your all! Give it 110% and don't give up!
~By Vanessa Hudgens ~
All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.
~By Alexis Carrel ~
I met with my lawyers. They gave me all the wrong advice. For a long time I refused to accept the child was mine. I should have met her, arranged a DNA test and accepted my responsibility.
~By Boris Becker ~
We must advertise to U.S. business that we are there, that our attitude has changed, and that we care. When we are asked to help, we have to perform and provide the right advice.
~By Lawrence Eagleburger ~
Never Have Your Dog Stuffed is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.
~By Alan Alda ~
I'm not a very good advice-giver.
~By Juliana Hatfield ~
Walk a mile in my shoes is good advice. Our children will learn to respect others if they are used to imagining themselves in another's place.
~By Neil Kurshan ~
Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least.
~By Lord Chesterfield ~
You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.
~By M. Kathleen Casey ~
If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.
~By Winston Churchill ~
I never take advice from anyone more messed up than I am.
~By Tom Hopkins ~
I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing over whether it is true or not.
~By Peter Medawar ~
Now that it's officially summer, here's my advice to parents who want to continue teaching their kids during the next two months and learn something themselves: visit Civil War battlefields.
~By Marvin Olasky ~
Children don't need much advice but they really do need to be listened to and not just with half an ear.
~By Emma Thompson ~
A lot of girls ask for advice on how to get into acting, and I'm kind of the worst person to ask, because it just kind of fell in my lap... I was just in the right place at the right time.
~By Alexis Bledel ~
There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both.
~By Soren Kierkegaard ~
Pension reforms, like investment advice and automatic enrollment, will strengthen the ability of Americans to save and invest for retirement.
~By Steve Bartlett ~
I'm certainly the last person to give advice on, well, anything.
~By George Clooney ~
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.
~By Socrates ~
The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.
~By Theodor Adorno ~
Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
He who is not impressed by sound advice, lacks faith.
~By Abu Bakr ~
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
The fear of failure is so great, it is no wonder that the desire to do right by one's children has led to a whole library of books offering advice on how to raise them.
~By Bruno Bettelheim ~
I don't give advice. I can't tell anybody what to do. Instead I say this is what we know about this problem at this time. And here are the consequences of these actions.
~By Joyce Brothers ~
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
Whatever is about you that is translated into your art, that's gonna keep you completly original and fresh and I just think that, that's just the best advice I can give, to an artist creatively.
~By Bubba Sparxxx ~
Meyer and I have a bit in common because we're both left-handed. I think it's great that he seeks out that advice because he's not too cool or too uncomfortable to ask for it.
~By Barry Zito ~
The patient's autonomy always, always should be respected, even if it is absolutely contrary - the decision is contrary to best medical advice and what the physician wants.
~By Jack Kevorkian ~
I have been trying to point out that in our lives chance may have an astonishing influence and, if I may offer advice to the young laboratory worker, it would be this - never to neglect an extraordinary appearance or happening.
~By Alexander Fleming ~
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.
~By Joan Rivers ~
Tranquilizers work only if you follow the advice on the bottle - keep away from children.
~By Phyllis Diller ~
The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.
~By George Chapman ~
When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.
~By Al Franken ~
I counseled many returning missionaries. I interviewed 1,700 missionaries all over the world. My advice to them is that you should study and prepare for your life's work in a field that you enjoy.
~By Thomas S. Monson ~
Well, I just can't play the game anymore. I'm 63 years old, and I've been in the business for 40 years now. I take good advice and direction really well, but I don't need somebody that finished college two years ago to come in and tell me what I should be recording.
~By Charlie Daniels ~
There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
~By John Burroughs ~
A good scare is worth more than good advice.
~By J. W. Eagan ~
I would never offer advice without the person asking for it. I, in general, don't believe in giving advice, actually, as a human being I don't.
~By Joan Chen ~
So there was a constant flow and a thin line there between reality and television and yes, much of what I was experiencing in my real life was also what was going on in the television show to the extent that I had to take writers' advice and from the counselors around.
~By Alan Thicke ~
It is very kind of you to consider the possibility of my working in Pasadena, an idea which certainly is attractive, especially since it would hold out the prospect of your cooperation or advice.
~By Karl Landsteiner ~
But I try not to become preoccupied with that because with whatever direction I follow, with whatever advice I've followed or not followed, It's landed me in New York, in a very beautiful hotel, talking to people about something that I love. So I ain't that far off.
~By Eriq La Salle ~
It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.'
~By Aldous Huxley ~
To think well and to consent to obey someone giving good advice are the same thing.
~By Herodotus ~
Advice and consent does not mean rubber stamp in the Senate.
~By Patricia Ireland ~
My success was due to good luck, hard work, and support and advice from friends and mentors. But most importantly, it depended on me to keep trying after I had failed.
~By Mark Warner ~
The history of the last century shows, as we shall see later, that the advice given to governments by bankers, like the advice they gave to industrialists, was consistently good for bankers, but was often disastrous for governments, businessmen, and the people generally.
~By Carroll Quigley ~
I'll tell you one thing: Don't ever give anybody your best advice, because they're not going to follow it.
~By Jack Nicholson ~
When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again.
~By Hugo Black ~
I can remember how rude I could be at times to journalists and people phoning up for advice.
~By Benjamin Cohen ~
We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
All of our affairs, since the union of crowns, have been managed by the advice of English ministers, and the principal offices of the kingdom filled with such men, as the court of England knew would be subservient to their designs.
~By Andrew Fletcher ~
I mean, I try to say the right things and give the right advice. But still, I'm only a person.
~By Jonathan Brandis ~
Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.
~By Warren Buffett ~
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.
~By Abu Bakar Bashir ~
The people sensible enough to give good advice are usually sensible enough to give none.
~By Eden Phillpotts ~
If I had to give one piece of advice to incoming college freshmen, I'd say always be true to yourself.
~By Beverley Mitchell ~
I think he's informing himself, reaching out and getting ideas and information and advice. I haven't the slightest doubt that internally taking shape in that marvelous brain of his is a philosophy of foreign affairs. But it would be premature to say that one is fully formed.
~By Theodore C. Sorensen ~
Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
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