Quote: 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.

Author: Francis Bacon 1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

Quote: There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.

Author: Francis Bacon 1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

Quote: The worst men often give the best advice.

Author: Philip James Bailey 1816-1902, British Poet

Quote: Most of us ask for advice when we know the answer but we want a different one.

Author: Ivern Ball

Quote: Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Author: Walter Benjamin 1982-1940, German Critic, Philosopher

Quote: A fool think he needs no advice, but a wise man listens to others.

Author: Bible Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism

Quote: Where no counsel is, the people fall; but in the multitude of counselors there is safety.

Author: Bible Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism

Quote: Consult. To seek another's approval of a course already decided on.

Author: Ambrose Bierce 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary''

Quote: Advice is like castor oil, easy to give, but dreadful to take.

Author: Josh Billings 1815-1885, American Humorist, Lecturer

Quote: Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.

Author: Josh Billings 1815-1885, American Humorist, Lecturer

Quote: The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is.

Author: Phillips Brooks 1835-1893, American Minister, Poet

Quote: Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

Author: Thomas Carlyle 1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author

Quote: Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel.

Author: George Chapman 1557-1634, British Dramatist, Translator, Poet

Quote: Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.

Author: Lord Chesterfield 1694-1773, British Statesman, Author

Quote: In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.

Author: Lord Chesterfield 1694-1773, British Statesman, Author

Quote: I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

Author: Gilbert K. Chesterton 1874-1936, British Author

Quote: In those days he was wiser than he is now -- he used frequently to take my advice.

Author: Winston Churchill 1874-1965, British Statesman, Prime Minister

Quote: Advice is like snow; the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.

Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher

Quote: Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favor.

Author: John Churton Collins

Quote: To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.

Author: John Churton Collins

Quote: We ask advice but we mean approbation.

Author: Charles Caleb Colton 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer

Quote: A word to the wise isn't necessary, it is the stupid ones who need all the advice.

Author: Bill Cosby 1937-, American Actor, Comedian, Producer

Quote: There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.

Author: Edward Dahlberg 1900-1977, American Author, Critic

Quote: I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.

Author: Gene Fowler 1890-1960, American Journalist, Biographer

Quote: They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles.

Author: Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

Quote: Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.

Author: Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

Quote: When in doubt, don't.

Author: Saul W. Gellerman American Academic

Quote: When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

Author: Kahlil Gibran 1883-1931, Lebanese Poet, Novelist

Quote: When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.

Author: Marquis de la Grange

Quote: 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.

Author: John Gray American Relationship Expert, Author

Quote: To offer a man unsolicited advice is to presume that he doesn't know what to do or that he can't do it on his own.

Author: John Gray American Relationship Expert, Author

Quote: Always be nice to bankers. Always be nice to pension fund managers. Always be nice to the media. In that order.

Author: Lord Hanson British Executive

Quote: The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment.

Author: Sir Arthur Helps 1813-1875, British Historian, Novelist, Essayist

Quote: We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice.

Author: Jack Herbert

Quote: The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.

Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes 1809-1894, American Author, Wit, Poet

Quote: A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Author: Horace BC 65-8, Italian Poet

Quote: Whatever advice you give, be short.

Author: Horace BC 65-8, Italian Poet

Quote: Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance.

Author: I Ching 12th Century BC, Chinese Book of Changes

Quote: No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

Author: Ben Johnson 1600-?British Clergyman, Poet

Quote: The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.

Author: Samuel Johnson 1709-1784, British Author

Quote: Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

Author: Erica Jong 1942-, American Author

Quote: He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.

Author: Karl Von Knebel

Quote: Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.

Author: Knegge

Quote: Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

Author: Francois De La Rochefoucauld 1613-1680, French Classical Writer

Quote: The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.

Author: Francois De La Rochefoucauld 1613-1680, French Classical Writer

Quote: We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.

Author: Francois De La Rochefoucauld 1613-1680, French Classical Writer

Quote: We may give advice, but not the sense to use it.

Author: Francois De La Rochefoucauld 1613-1680, French Classical Writer

Quote: Number one: Don't frisk me. Don't hurt me physically. Don't get anywhere near my neck. And don't call me Regis. [Advice to his guests]

Author: David Letterman 1947-, American TV Personality

Quote: Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.

Author: Lope de Vega 1562-1635, Spanish Playwright

Quote: It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.

Author: J. C. Macaulay

Quote: Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.

Author: Thomas L. Masson

Quote: Your friends praise your abilities to the skies, submit to you in argument, and seem to have the greatest deference for you; but, though they may ask it, you never find them following your advice upon their own affairs; nor allowing you to manage your own, without thinking that you should follow theirs. Thus, in fact, they all think themselves wiser than you, whatever they may say.

Author: Lord Melbourne 1779-1848, British Statesman, Prime Minister

Quote: I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

Author: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 1689-1762, British Society Figure, Letter Writer

Quote: It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.

Author: Jawaharlal Nehru 1889-1964, Indian Nationalist, Statesman

Quote: Good advice is beyond all price.

Author: Proverb

Quote: Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.

Author: Proverb

Quote: Never give advice in a crowd.

Author: Arabian Proverb Sayings of Arabian Origin

Quote: If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't give advice.

Author: Chinese Proverb Sayings of Chinese Origin

Quote: Never give advice unless asked.

Author: German Proverb Sayings of German Origin

Quote: To advise is easier than to help.

Author: German Proverb Sayings of German Origin

Quote: To advise is not to compel.

Author: German Proverb Sayings of German Origin

Quote: 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.

Author: Spanish Proverb Sayings of Spanish Origin

Quote: It is easy to give advice from a port of safety.

Author: Johann Friedrich Von Schiller 1759-1805, German Dramatist, Poet, Historian

Quote: One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Author: Johann Friedrich Von Schiller 1759-1805, German Dramatist, Poet, Historian

Quote: 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.

Author: David Seabury American Doctor, Author

Quote: Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

Author: Seneca 4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

Quote: I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.

Author: William Shakespeare 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

Quote: It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.

Author: Aeschylus BC 525-456, Greek Dramatist

Quote: Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Author: Aesop 620-560 BC, Greek Fabulist

Quote: Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.

Author: Tony Alesandra American Businessman, Author, Speaker

Quote: We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.

Author: William R. Alger 1822-1905, American Writer

Quote: Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom s. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.

Author: Nelson Algren 1909-1981, American Author

Quote: To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.

Author: Ghose Aurobindo 1872-1950, Philosopher

Quote: I'm not a teacher: only a fellow-traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead -- ahead of myself as well as you.

Author: George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

Quote: We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do.

Author: Henry Wheeler Shaw 1818-1885, American Humorist

Quote: 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.

Author: Hannah Whitall Smith

Quote: No one wants advice, only corroboration.

Author: John Steinbeck 1902-1968, American Author

Quote: These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.

Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811-1896, American Novelist, Antislavery Campaigner

Quote: It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Author: Publilius Syrus 1st Century BC, Roman Writer

Quote: Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Author: Publilius Syrus 1st Century BC, Roman Writer

Quote: If one man says to thee, ''Thou art a donkey,'' pay no heed. If two speak thus, purchase a saddle.

Author: The Talmud BC 500?-400? AD, Jewish Archive of Oral Tradition

Quote: I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me.

Author: Hunter S. Thompson 1939-, American Journalist

Quote: Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

Author: Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist

Quote: I have lived some thirty-odd years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.

Author: Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist

Quote: A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

Author: Source Unknown

Quote: A word to the wise is infuriating.

Author: Source Unknown

Quote: Advice is the only commodity on the market where the supply always exceeds the demand.

Author: Source Unknown

Quote: Anybody who ask for advice nowadays just hasn't been listening.

Author: Source Unknown

Quote: Never play leapfrog with a unicorn.

Author: Source Unknown

Quote: Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.

Author: Source Unknown

Quote: Successful men follow the same advice they prescribe for others.

Author: Source Unknown

Quote: Give help rather than advice.

Author: Marquis De Vauvenargues 1715-1747, French Moralist

Quote: The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.

Author: Oscar Wilde 1856-1900, British Author, Wit

Quote: Some of these people need ten years of therapy --ten sentences of mine do not equal ten years of therapy.

Author: Jeff Zaslow 1925-, American Advice Columnist

Quote: Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

Author: Colin Powell

Quote: Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.

Author: Aesop

Quote: Beware of small expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.

Author: Benjamin Franklin

Quote: Change before you have to.

Author: Jack Welch

Quote: Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

Author: Francis Bacon

Quote: Count your age with friends but not with years.

Author: Anonymous

Quote: Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.

Author: Brendan Hills

Quote: Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.

Author: Anonymous

Quote: Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

Author: William Faulkner

Quote: Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

Author: Robert Frost

Quote: Don't look back - something might be gaining on you.

Author: Satchel Paige

Quote: Don't stay in bed....unless you can make money in bed.

Author: George Burns

Quote: Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say Don't trust anyone over 30.

Author: Anonymous

Quote: Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.

Author: Sir Winston Churchill

Quote: Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches. The Duchess of Windsor when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life.

Author: Anonymous

Quote: For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack. - Laundry instructions on a shirt made by (HEET) Korea

Author: HEET

Quote: Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.

Author: John Murray

Quote: I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement speaker. Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake he said. They need you in order to have the party, but no one expects you to say very much.

Author: Anthony Lake

Quote: If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it

Author: H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Quote: If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed.

Author: Kate Halvereson

Quote: If you can't convince them, confuse them.

Author: Harry S. Truman

Quote: If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

Author: Mother Teresa

Quote: If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.

Author: Sir Winston Churchill

Quote: If you're going through hell, keep going.

Author: Sir Winston Churchill

Quote: In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.

Author: Sir Winston Churchill

Quote: Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't

Author: Erica Jong

Quote: We hate to have some people give us advice because we know how badly they need it themselves.

Author: Anonymous

Quote: Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.

Author: François Duc de La Rochefoucauld

Quote: The best advice is this: Don't take advice and don't give advice.

Author: Anonymous

Quote: No one wants advice - only corroboration.

Author: John Steinbeck

Quote: When we ask advice we are usually looking for an accomplice.

Author: Charles Varlet Marquis de La Grange

Quote: The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others.

Author: Anonymous

Quote: It is more easy to be wise for others than for ourselves.

Author: François Duc de La Rochefoucauld

Quote: In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.

Author: Solon

Quote: A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.

Author: Edgar Watson Howe

Quote: Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Author: Aesop

Quote: Accept good advice gracefully--as long as it doesn't interfere with what you intended to do in the first place.

Author: Gene Brown

Quote: To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.

Author: (John) Churton Collins

Quote: Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give

Author: Agatha Christie

Quote: Death is Nature's expert advice to get plenty of Life.

Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Quote: The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.

Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Quote: Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Author: -- W(illiam) Somerset Maugham

Quote: I'm always there to tell people that their life is not that bad. I wish it was easy to follow that advice It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

Author: Mignon McLaughlin

Quote: The best advice one can offer to both press and public is the suggestion Ronald Reagan himself gave to students in Chicago ... Don't let me get away with it. Check me out. Don't be the sucker generation.

Author: Jean Nathan Miller

Quote: If you achieve success, you will get applause, and if you get applause, you will hear it. My advice to you concerning applause is this; enjoy it but never quite believe it.

Author: Robert Montgomery

Quote: Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.

Author: Richard Nixon

Quote: Millions of words are written annually purporting to tell how to beat the races, whereas the best possible advice on the subject is found in the three monosyllables: Do not try

Author: Dan Parker

Quote: The people sensible enough to give good advice are usually sensible enough to give none.

Author: Eden Phillpotts

Quote: Never give advice in a crowd - Arabian Proverb

Author: Anonymous

Quote: When a thing is done, advice comes too late. - Romanian Proverb

Author: Anonymous

Quote: How is it possible to expect mankind to take advice when they will not so much as take warning?

Author: Jonathan Swift

Quote: The art of advice is to make the recipient believe he thought the thought of it himself.

Author: Frank Tyger

Quote: Often sound advice turns out to be totally wrong. Sometimes things turn out in such a way that only a fool would predict. Which is why fools, too, have their place in analysis and debate.

Author: Anonymous

Quote: A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's friend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's really attractive.

Author: Bruce Friedman

Quote: A dollar saved is a quarter earned.

Author: John Ciardi

Quote: A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.

Author: Sidney Goff

Quote: Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath.

Author: Jacob Braude

Quote: Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

Author: Mark Twain

Quote: Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.

Author: King George V

Quote: Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.

Author: Al Capp

Quote: Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler.

Author: Albert Einstein

Quote: Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

Author: George Bernard Shaw

Quote: If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.

Author: Albert Einstein

Quote: It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way to bet.

Author: Damon Runyan

Quote: Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Author: Mark Twain

Quote: Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.

Author: Sir Winston Churchill

Quote: Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

Author: H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Quote: Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

Author: Josh Billings

Quote: Live truth instead of professing it.

Author: Elbert Hubbard

Quote: Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.

Author: P.J. O'Rourke

Quote: Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.

Author: Niels Bohr

Quote: Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

Author: Erma Bombeck

Quote: Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.

Author: Phyllis Diller

Quote: Never judge a book by its movie.

Author: J.W. Eagan

Quote: Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.

Author: Cynthia Heimel

Quote: Never moon a werewolf.

Author: Mike Binder

Quote: Never practice two vices at once.

Author: Tallulah Bankhead

Quote: Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.

Author: Albert Einstein

Quote: Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.

Author: anonymous

Quote: Never, never, never give up.

Author: Sir Winston Churchill

Quote: One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words.

Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Quote: Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.

Author: Albert Einstein

Quote: Start slow and taper off.

Author: Walt Stack

Quote: There are a million ways to lose a work day, but not even a single way to get one back.

Author: Tom DeMarco

Quote: There is no point at which you can say, 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'

Author: Carrie Fisher

Quote: 'Think simple' as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.

Author: Frank Lloyd Wright

Quote: Trust, but verify.

Author: Ronald Reagan

Quote: We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.

Author: Cybill Shepherd

Quote: We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.

Author: Aesop

Quote: Well done is better than well said.

Author: Benjamin Franklin

Quote: What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.

Author: Abraham Lincoln

Quote: Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

Author: Benjamin Franklin

Quote: Whatever you are, be a good one.

Author: Abraham Lincoln

Quote: When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.

Author: Cynthia Heimel

Quote: When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of the workmanship.

Author: John Renmerde

Quote: When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.

Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.

Quote: Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.

Author: Henry Ford

Quote: You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

Author: Abraham Lincoln

Quote: You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.

Author: W. Somerset Maugham

Quote: You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.

Author: Indira Gandhi

Quote: You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to cough.

Author: Pearl Williams

Quote: A man is known by the company he keeps.

Author: Deepali Garai I am not an author, just a common girl.

Quote: "I'd open my mind, but I don't want the stupid to corrupt it."

Author: Cody Goldsmith