Quotes About Advice

In college, my teachers were usually after me for going after comedy too much, leaning too much in that direction.

Many critics have become de facto teachers. That is a lot of responsibility, and I think it should be wielded with care. Most people appreciate sincere guidance.

I read your poems with interest and found them serious, original, linguistically fresh, but first of all you must learn to curb your excess of emotion and write with more distance. As if you the person writing the poems and you the suffering young man are two different people, and as though the former observes the latter coolly, distantly, even with a measure of amusement.

Tuttavia, nessuno in paese usciva mai di casa quando era buio. Perché il buio, dicevano i genitori, il buio è pieno di cose che è decisamente meglio non incontrare.

The women advised long walks. They told the wife to watch the sun rise and set, to look for solace in the natural world, though they admitted there was no comfort to be found in the world and they would all be fools to expect it.

Mamas are always saying, be careful. Mine said it to me. Yours said it to you. Be careful out a mama's mouth don't mean nothing 'cept protect yourself better than I did.

Oh, one must go to oneself for advice, or to companions of one's own age. One's elders are no use.

Boulton sold the estate which had come to him by his wife, and the greater part of his father's property, and mortgaged the remainder. It is evident that the great captain had taken in hand far too many enterprises. Probably he had not heard the new doctrine: Put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

one word of advice to my reader. It is this. It needs

Mom always said not to worry about love, but just to be sure to get married. But I always knew that I would never get married, because I don't want any children, I don't want them to have the same problems that I have. I don't think anybody deserves it.

Marcie, you don't need to read books. It's just a dumb habit for introverts.

You don't have time, Len. That is the most bitter and the most beautiful piece of advice that I can offer. If you don't have what you want now, you don't have what you want

Never eat Oreo cream filling before bed. You'll wake up with a headache.

If your best friend were to ask how she could live a better life, you would probably find many useful things to say, and yet you might not live that way yourself. On one level, wisdom is nothing more profound than an ability to follow one's own advice.

On one level, wisdom is nothing more profound than an ability to follow one's own advice. However, there are deeper insights to be had about the nature of our minds. Unfortunately, they have been discussed entirely in the context of religion and, therefore, have been shrouded in fallacy and superstition for all of human history.

People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.

ABOUT  (ABO'UT)   prep.[abutan, or abuton, Sax. which seems to signify encircling on the outside.]1. Round, surrounding, encircling. Let not mercy and truth forsake thee. Bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thy heart.BibleProverbs,iii. 3.

ADMONITION  (ADMONI'TION)   n.s.[admonitio, Lat.]The hint of a fault or duty; counsel; gentle reproof.

The great direction which Burton has left to men disordered like you, is this: Be not solitary; be not idle—which I would thus modify: If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle.

I mean not offence. I have done with that subject. My Lord, to be sure, has dominion over his bird. He can choose her cage. She has nothing to do, but sit and sing in it — when her instrument is mended, and in tune — He has but one fault. He is too good-natured to his bird. But would he take your advice, madam —

God send me a friend, that may tell me of my faults: if not, an enemy, and he will.

Always carry a large flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite, and further, always carry a small snake.

And you know what they say. Always carry a large flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite, and further, always carry a small snake.

don't smoke.