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Quotes About Advice

The simple rely on a bolstering mass of maxim and precept, so do the timid, so do the mentally lazy – and so do all of us, more than we imagine.
~ John Wyndham
Have a conversation in your mind with a younger version of you!
~ John Zakour
I also love 'Mr. Fox' and the advice that his bride-to-be sees carved above the door to his house: BE BOLD, BE BOLD. She goes inside, of course, and then she sees more advice: BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BUT NOT TOO BOLD. But she goes through that door, too. The next piece of advice is BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BUT NOT TOO BOLD, LEST THAT YOUR HEART'S BLOOD RUN COLD. I bet you can imagine what she does anyway.
~ Ellen Datlow
When I look back on the stuff I used to wear, I wonder why somebody didn't try to stop me. Just a friendly warning, "You may regret this," would have been fine.
~ Ellen DeGeneres
There are all sorts of books offering advice on how to deal with life-threatening situations, but where's the advice on dealing with embarrassing ones?
~ Ellen DeGeneres
So to conclude my conclusion, follow your passion, stay true to yourself. Never follow anyone else's path, unless you're in the woods and you're lost and you see a path and by all means you should follow that. Don't give advice, it will come back and bite you in the ass. Don't take anyone's advice. So my advice to you is to be true to yourself and everything will be fine.
~ Ellen DeGeneres
Advice to a Separated Couple—My brother, my sister, for some time you have not been living together. You should not have pursued this course and would not have done so if both of you had been cultivating the patience, kindness, and forbearance that should ever exist between husband and wife.
~ Ellen G. White
I agree with every word you write, and I can prove this in no better way than by taking your advice from beginning to end.
~ Ellen Glasgow
when new technology for cardiac surgery was introduced, those medical teams with leaders who minimized concern for status differences—in other words, were willing implicitly to admit they didn't have all the answers and take advice from underlings—had the most effective communication, learned the most, and found the transition the easiest.
~ Ellen J. Langer
How do I stop this misery?" I groaned, scanning the shelves for a cure. "Don't go out there," he said flatly. I contemplated this reasonable observation for about sixteen seconds. Move to town. Hang out at the laundromat. Have eight children. Then I melted back into the pinon-juniper forest.
~ Ellen Meloy
El alcohol no es mal consejero, lo que pasa es que no siempre uno lo escucha correctamente.
~ Élmer Mendoza
Write the book the way it should be written, then give it to somebody to put in the commas and shit.
~ Elmore Leonard
Avoid Prologues. They can be annoying, especially a prologue following an introduction that comes after a foreword.
~ Elmore Leonard
Ce idee la NuÅ£u s?-ÅŸi cumpere televizor! Asta e iadul. Alt sfat: nu citi în pat. Eu m-am obiÅŸnuit s? fac o plimbare în fiecare sear?, cu un ceas înainte de culcare. In sfîrÅŸit: ia cît mai puÅ£ine somnifere. Eu am abuzat de ele la tinereÅ£e ÅŸi ?sta a fost dezastrul vieÅ£ii mele.
~ Emil Cioran
Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.
~ Baltasar Gracian
Know or listen to those who know.
~ Baltasar Gracian
My further advice on your relations to women is based upon that other motto of chivalry, "Serve all, love one."
~ balzac honore de vii
Mothers with marriageable daughters ought to look out for men of this stamp, men with brains to act as protecting divinity, with worldly wisdom to diagnose like a surgeon, and with experience to take a mother's place in warding off evil.
~ balzac honore de xi
Your wife ought to drink water, lightly tinged with a Burgundy wine agreeable to her taste, but destitute of any tonic properties; every other kind of wine would be bad for her. Never allow her to drink water alone; if you do, you are lost...
~ balzac honore de xix
My father warned me about men and booze, but he never mentioned a word about women and cocaine.
~ bankhead tallulah iii
Together they would seek out those facing difficult decisions and show them outcomes to their choices. "Wait!" she cried, inside the mirror. "What does that mean?
~ Barb Hendee
Lucy, the eldest, said a DiFalco woman couldn't hold onto a man if she had him Krazy Glued to her side. Over the years Rose had come to realize the truth of that statement. In
~ Barbara Bretton
She cleared her throat once or twice, and said something about poor people should eat a lot of herrings, as they were most nutritious, also she had heard poor people eat heaps of sheeps' heads and she went on to ask if I ever cooked them. I said I would rather be dead than cook or eat a sheep's head; I'd seen them in butchers' shops with awful eyes and bits of wool sticking to their skulls. After that helpful hints for the poor were forgotten.
~ Barbara Comyns
You may not like the idea of putting money into a home when you're moving out. But it's demanded by the market. You need to show it off. You don't have to rip out the kitchen and bathroom. But maybe replace the tiles or the countertops. Get professional advice.
~ Barbara Corcoran