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Quotes About Advice

A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
~ E.W. Howe
Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom wait until they have been married longer.
~ E.W. Howe
it never hurts to get second opinion
~ Ed Tittel
Never put a sock in a toaster.
~ Eddie Izzard
But it was always thus with Irishmen. Never, since the start of the world, has one of them taken a woman's sensible advice when there was foolish counsel available from his male friends.
~ Eddie Lenihan
The people sensible enough to give good advice are usually sensible enough to give none.
~ Eden Phillpotts
Who told you this little gem? Chuck. Some random Chuck. There's a reliable-sounding source of information. He's a Wild Man of the Woods. You're taking advice from a sasquatch? You know they eat people, right? Chuck's a hugan. A what? Vegan, but with people. For fuck's sake, Jared. There's a difference between giving your power willingly and having power ripped from you. Did Chuck the fucking sasquatch tell you that? They don't like to be called sasquatches. You would drive a saint to murder.
~ Eden Robinson
I'll obey them in the winter when the doctors say to me I must give up ham and spinach, and obedient I'll be. To relieve my indigestion in December they can try, But there's none of them can stop me when it's time for cherry pie.
~ Edgar A Guest
can leaders and managers learn to be humble consultants to their subordinates?
~ Edgar H Schein
If a client insists on getting a recommendation from you, always give him at least two alternatives so that he still has to make choice.
~ Edgar H. Schein
Share your helping problem. More often than I care to admit I have found that when I was supposed to be helping someone, I suddenly did not know what to do next. When this happens, the best thing to do is to say to the client, "At this point I am stuck—I don't know what to do next to be helpful.
~ Edgar H. Schein
Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it. (in a letter written while she was in college)
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
En serio. Haceme caso —insiste Federico—. Nunca subestimes la estupidez de la gente.
~ Eduardo Sacheri
Three things my daddy tried to learn me. 'Son', he always said, 'remember these three precepts and you can't go wrong. One, never eat at a place called Mom's. Two, never play cards with a man named Doc.' 'That's only two.' 'I can never recollect the third, and that's what worries me.
~ Edward Abbey
Consult not your friend; he is sensible and wise, but not now is his wisdom needed. There are times in life when from the imagination, and not the reason, should wisdom come, — this for you is one of them.
~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Socrates: what will happen to my children if I do what my friends are suggesting? Hume: you can't always believe what other people tell you. Descartes: when there's so much disagreement between the authorities, what can we do but go back to basics and start again?
~ Edward craig
Four out of five dentists recommend sugarless gum for their patients who chew gum.
~ Anonymous
You have the right to remain silent, but I don't recommend it.
~ Anonymous
In the multitude of counsellors there is safety.He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it.
~ Anonymous
If at first you don't succeed, do it like your mother told you.
~ Anonymous
A good example has twice the value of good advice.
~ Anonymous
My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.
~ Anonymous
The best advice is this: Don't take advice and don't give advice.
~ Anonymous