Quotes About Advice

My dad loves going backstage. I try not to have him give too many jokes to people.

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.

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.

Whoseoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god. Certain it is that the light that a man receiveth by counsel from another is drier and purer than that which cometh from his own understanding and judgment.

The wisest man will let himself be swayed By others' wisdom and relax in time.

Dear Reader, may God protect you from bad books, police and nagging, moon-faced, fair-haired women.

Nothing is less sincere than our mode of asking and giving advice. He who asks seems to have a deference for the opinion of his friend, while he only aims to get approval of his own and make his friend responsible for his action. And he who gives advice repays the confidence supposed to be placed in him by a seemingly disinterested zeal, while he seldom means anything by his advice but his own interest or reputation.

Horrible the fate of the advice-giver in our culture: to repeat oneself in a thousand contexts until death, or irrelevance. * I abjure advice-giver.

It is necessary to learn from others' mistakes. You will not live long enough to make them all yourself. ADMIRAL HYMAN G. RICKOVER

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines.

A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his client to plant vines.

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines — so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.

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

I only want to warn you that even the best can do one harm when one isn't ripe enough in years to receive it properly.

If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.

Anybody who thinks talk is cheap should get some legal advice.

The young bourgeoisie, which seems stricken by premature senility, ignores the advice proffered and proves incapable of understanding that it is in its own interest to veil, even slightly, its exploitation of the people.

It is of course quite a different matter when a seeker, no longer satisfied with materialism or dogma and yearning for spiritual nourishment, asks an initiate for advice and enlightenment. In such an instance the initiate is duty bound to enlighten the seeker in accordance with his perceptive faculties. The magician should spare neither time nor effort to communicate his spiritual treasures to the seeker and lead him towards the light.

When I think of Robert Frost's poems, like "The Road Not Taken," I feel the support of someone who is on my side, who understands what life's choices are like, someone who says, "I've been there, and it's okay to go on.

Investment and speculation are said to be two different things, and the prudent man is advised to engage in the one and avoid the other. This is something like explaining to the troubled adolescent that Love and Passion are two different things. He perceives that they are different, but they don't seem quite different enough to clear up his problems.

Il miglior consiglio menzionato praticamente in tutti i trattati sulla peste è: Cito, longe fugeas et tarde redeas. Vale a dire: Presto, fuggi lontano e torna tardi. In altre parole, taglia la corda e stattene via più che puoi. E' il celebre "rimedio dei tre avverbi": prosto, lontano, tardi". In latino: Cito, Longe, Tarde.

Advise me, but do not force your opinion on me. I shall decide at my peril and risk; that is enough and for the law to interfere would be tyranny.

A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.