Quotes About Advice

What do you tell a man with two black eyes? Nothing, he's already been told twice.

There are some men who turn a deaf ear to reason and good advice, and willfully go wrong for fear of being controlled.

Lastly (and this is, perhaps, the golden rule), no woman should marry a man who does not smoke.

Wise man was he who counselled that speculation should have free course, and look fearlessly towards all the thirty-two points of the compass, whithersoever and howsoever it listed.

I have often heard that the outstanding man is he who thinks deeply about a problem, and the next is he who listens carefully to advice.

Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.

No man should ever publish a book until he has first read it to a woman.

I asked my old man if I could go ice-skating on the lake. He told me, "Wait til it gets warmer."

The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it.

Bud's relationship with the female sex was governed by a gallimaufry of primal impulses, dim suppositions, deranged theories, overheard scraps of conversation, half-remembered pieces of bad advice, and fragments of no-doubt exaggerated anecdotes that amounted to rank superstition.

What is the moral of your play, Jack?" "Oh, it could be a number of things: stay the hell out of Europe, for example. Or: when the men with swords come, run away! Especially if they've got Bibles, too." "Sound advice.

Find it on the map, you can always get to it. Try to follow someone's half-assed directions, and once you lose the trail, you're sunk.

He went back to Iowa State, considered changing his major to mathematics, but didn't. It was the consensus of all whom he consulted that mathematics, like pipe-organ restoration, was a fine thing, but that one needed some way to put bread on the table.

IF YOU ARE ABOUT TO BE IN A SWORDFIGHT— This comes up a lot and I am working on upgrading the relevant wiki pages, but people seem to end up here anyway LOL. My basic advice: DON'T DO IT! It is ridiculously, fantastically dangerous. Modern people are calibrated for a whole different level of danger acceptance.

This book germinated in a collaboration between me and the artist Tony Sheeder, the original goal of which was to publish a computer-generated graphic novel. In general, I handled the words and he handled the pictures; but even though this work consists almost entirely of words, certain aspects of it stem from my discussions with Tony. This novel was very difficult to write, and I received a great deal of good advice from

She doesn't want to end up like me. At least I'm giving someone an example not to follow.

Butting heads with someone never works," his mom said. "I always say that you don't have to do the direct approach. You can just go around because there's always a back way." "Now I know where he got Mystery Method from." In three sentences, his mother had unintentionally summarized Mystery's entire approach to meeting women: the indirect method.

On the other hand, this was a guy who advised students to get over their fear of approaching by walking up to random women and saying, "Hi, I'm Manny the Martian. What's your favorite flavor of bowling ball?" So I really didn't have to worry about looking foolish in front of him. He created fools. At

Indeed we all try to raise our children as if our past experiences are important for their future, but they rarely are.

had to tell Jimmy to lighten up

Definitely a bit sassy. Maybe I bring that out in women. I advised her

They're terribly anxious to see him married, and they're always gossiping. And then Mrs. Plowden said, "He might do worse than look in his own kitchen, to my way of thinking." And Annie said, "Aye, that's a fact. It wouldn't be the first time that's happened, and it won't be the last.

A prince, therefore, ought always to take counsel, but only when he wishes and not when others wish; he ought rather to discourage every one from offering advice unless he asks it; but, however, he ought to be a constant inquirer, and afterwards a patient listener concerning the things of which he inquired; also, on learning that any one, on any consideration, has not told him the truth, he should let his anger be felt.

Therefore it must be inferred that good counsels, whencesoever they come, are born of the wisdom of the prince, and not the wisdom of the prince from good counsels.