Saul Bellow never took my advice when he was my friend.
~By Leslie Fiedler ~
If you go to most third world countries, the older woman dispenses advice to the arguing couple while other members of the family, or even the village, sit around and listen. It is no big deal.
~By Trisha Goddard ~
There is nothing men are so generous of as advice.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
My advice is to make acting your second career choice.
~By Amber Tamblyn ~
Advice to beginning SF writers? Write a lot, finish what you write, and when it's done, keep sending it out for quite awhile.
~By Rudy Rucker ~
To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery.
~By John Churton Collins ~
A student will send me an urgent appeal to hear her, saying she is poor and wants my advice as to whether it is worth while to continue her studies. I invariably refuse such requests.
~By Alma Gluck ~
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 ~
Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
At least for the people who send me mail about a new language that they're designing, the general advice is: do it to learn about how to write a compiler.
~By Dennis Ritchie ~
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 ~
My advice to an aspiring actor would be to never stop learning or working for what you want. Nothing comes easy, ever, if you want something, you have to work for it. By working for it I mean work on your craft, learn from people who have something to teach. It's just like anything else, practice makes perfect.
~By James Lafferty ~
After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down.
~By Barbara Cartland ~
Listen kid, take my advice, never hate a song that has sold half a million copies.
~By Irving Berlin ~
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 ~
There is a misleading, unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous, very old, or Greek, then it must be good advice.
~By Bo Bennett ~
Listen to advice, but follow your heart.
~By Conway Twitty ~
Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.
~By Baltasar Gracian ~
No one can give you better advice than yourself.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
And that's another piece of advice I'll give junior writers; when you get to the point where they take you to lunch, let the editor suggest where to go.
~By Jerry Pournelle ~
I can remember how rude I could be at times to journalists and people phoning up for advice.
~By Benjamin Cohen ~
The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
~By Oliver Wendell Holmes ~
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
A good scare is worth more than good advice.
~By J. W. Eagan ~
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 ~
What exists outside is a man's concern; let no woman give advice; and do no mischief within doors.
~By Aeschylus ~
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
~By Gilbert K. Chesterton ~
I'm gonna give them the advice that I always took myself, that it's better to get to know somebody before you jump into the sack with them. Because then if you jump into the sack and fall in love, and you liked them already, you're home free.
~By Pia Zadora ~
An expert is somebody who is more than 50 miles from home, has no responsibility for implementing the advice he gives, and shows slides.
~By Edwin Meese ~
Advice may not be good advice 10 or 15 years from now. Someone could tell you something years ago and it might not work now. The world is constantly changing. One word could mean something different today. Today you can't give advice to anyone.
~By Roy Haynes ~
There are a lot of personal things that take place when becoming governor and I am happy to work with him should he ask. I will give him the best advice I can give.
~By Scott McCallum ~
I had neither expert aid nor advice. I studied no courses in writing; until a year or so ago, I never read a book by anybody advising writers how to write.
~By Robert E. Howard ~
I don't worry anymore about where's the big hangout Tuesday night, Friday. Couldn't tell you and no one comes to me for advice anymore in those areas anymore, so real boring I would say.
~By Brett Favre ~
So my own suspicion is that the attorney has stopped this prosecution because part of her defence was to question legality and that would have brought his advice into the public domain again and there was something fishy about the way in which he said war was legal.
~By Clare Short ~
My clerkship with Justice Douglas was tremendously important. He told me, Christopher, get out into the stream of history and see what happens. I've tried to follow that advice.
~By Warren Christopher ~
They're fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
~By Lillian Hellman ~
The most consistent gift and burden of motherhood is advice.
~By Susan Chira ~
April is tax month. If you are having trouble filing your taxes, then you should hire an accountant. They'll give you the same advice that they've given hundreds of corporations - taxes are for douche bags.
~By Ed Helms ~
How true Daddy's words were when he said: all children must look after their own upbringing. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
~By Anne Frank ~
It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from "Dear Abby" instead of going to Mom and Dad.
~By Abigail Van Buren ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
One of the advantages of being a captain is being able to ask for advice without necessarily having to take it.
~By William Shatner ~
I also did an Ozzy piece for him, and so I got hired. Everything happened really fast. I can't give people advice, because everything in my life changed completely in less than a year and it's still not something I am used to.
~By Chuck Klosterman ~
I think, especially in our business we meet a lot of people, and sometimes you spend so much time being nice to strangers, and so, you know, keeping a clear head and just being nice to each other. And that's all the advice I can give.
~By Catherine Zeta-Jones ~
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 ~
Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.
~By J. B. Priestley ~
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 ~
That's my advice to all homosexuals, whether they're in the Boy Scouts, or in the Army or in high school: Shut up, don't tell anybody what you do, your life will be a lot easier.
~By Bill O'Reilly ~
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
But the advice was not taken - Johnstone did emigrate to Canada, and did mortgage his pension; and I fear - though I failed to trace his after history - that he suffered in consequence.
~By Hugh Miller ~
A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice.
~By James Callaghan ~
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.
~By Germaine Greer ~
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 ~
I've been homeschooling for eight years and have always received the best advice and encouragement from other homeschoolers, rather than a book or lecture.
~By Lisa Whelchel ~
Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
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 ~
You never find friends them following your advice upon their own affairs; nor allowing you to manage your own.
~By Willis Lamb ~
I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
~By Henry Ford ~
Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.
~By George Chapman ~
I don't think a reporter should give advice or make predictions.
~By Peter Jennings ~
We ask advice, but we mean approbation.
~By Charles Caleb Colton ~
My students frequently ask what their next project should be. My advice: immerse yourself in the music you love and you will find what you want to do; you will discover your next project.
~By Lukas Foss ~
When your mother asks, "Do you want a piece of advice?" it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway.
~By Erma Bombeck ~
Fans will praise you, scold you, and offer helpful advice. Fans will also defend you.
~By Charley Pride ~
Ask Mother for advice on breaking into show business.
~By Jack Davenport ~
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 ~
Never feel that a piece of criticism or advice is too much trouble to give, or that it exceeds your province.
~By Lord Mountbatten ~
If I had to give one piece of advice to incoming college freshmen, I'd say always be true to yourself.
~By Beverley Mitchell ~
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 ~
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 ~
It is not unprofessional to give free legal advice, but advertising that the first visit will be free is a bit like a fox telling chickens he will not bite them until they cross the threshold of the hen house.
~By Warren E. Burger ~
If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice.
~By Norman Ralph Augustine ~
Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
Hazard not your wealth on a poor man's advice.
~By Don J. Manuel ~
A lot of people think I'm cynical when I talk about acting. The truth of the matter is, I just don't want someone to get some lame advice that will send them in the wrong direction.
~By Amber Tamblyn ~
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 advice would be the same for any kind of fiction. Keep writing, and keep sending things out, not to friends and relatives, but to people who have the power to buy. A lot of additional, useful tips could be added, but this is fundamental.
~By Fred Saberhagen ~
Advice and consent does not mean rubber stamp in the Senate.
~By Patricia Ireland ~
When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him.
~By Josh Billings ~
The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees.
~By Andres Segovia ~
My advice is keep your lips away from the spinning things.
~By Adam Savage ~
The best advice he gave me was to carry on. It would have been difficult to set foot back inside a TV studio if I hadn't carried on - I don't know if I would have ever gone back in.
~By Cilla Black ~
She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).
~By Lewis Carroll ~
Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take.
~By Josh Billings ~
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
~By Kitty O'Neill Collins ~
The best careers advice to give to the young is 'Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.'
~By Katherine Whitehorn ~
I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don't have that experience. My only experience is at losing them.
~By Richard M. Nixon ~
A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.
~By Bill Cosby ~
Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.
~By Aesop ~
My advice to kids is give it your all! Give it 110% and don't give up!
~By Vanessa Hudgens ~
Know when to tune out, if you listen to too much advice you may wind up making other peoples mistakes.
~By Ann Landers ~
The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
~By Harry S. Truman ~
No one wants advice - only corroboration.
~By John Steinbeck ~
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 ~
There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
~By John Burroughs ~
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 ~
For the most part this is a place to find down-to-earth advice on everyday cooking, eating, food shopping, cooking equipment, and nice things to put on your table.
~By Arthur Schwartz ~
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