Quotes About Advice

Not even a hand-stitched suit could hide a body gone ruinously to seed. I was tempted to offer some fashion advice, but I didn't think he'd welcome the news that this year, bellies are being worn inside the trousers

It's always helpful to learn from those who have already been Where you're about to go.

Succeed; that is the advice that falls, drop by drop, from the overhanging fruit of corruption.

We live in a sad society. Succeed--that is the advice which falls drop by drop from the overhanging corruption. In passing, we might say that success is a hideous thing. Its false similarity to merit deceives men.

Ladies, a second piece of advice--do not marry; marriage is a graft; it may take hold or not. Shun the risk.

Ce que Paris conseille, l'Europe le médite ; ce que Paris commence, l'Europe le continue.

We live in a sad society. Succeed - that is the advice which falls drop by drop from the overhanging corruption.

He'd learned in the past few months that telling a girl what to wear--even one the size of a golf club--was a bad idea. Histrionics often followed.

allow me to be an old man for a moment and to remind a young girl who is used to being impulsive that there can be none of that anymore.

It is not so much about who my father was, this advice; it is what life is about. What death does to you. When I look down, of course she is not moving, her skin is cold, and I know she did not really speak to me. But she did. And so I do what I must. I stand up, feeling out my new role. I am a motherless daughter now, a sisterless woman. There is no one left of the family I was born into; there is only the family I have made.

Both were trying in their way to hold on to the day, to really celebrate his birthday, and afterward, when Meredith lay in her lonely bed, she began what she knew would be a new life habit: talking to her dad in the quiet times. She couldn't get advice from him, perhaps, but somehow just saying the words aloud helped.

How can I help you, my friend?" "I'm having a little trouble with my daughter, Suki." The caller's flattened vowels identified her as a midwesterner. "How old is Suki, Marge?" "Sixty-seven this November.

There was so much more to say, a lifetime's worth of love and advice to bestow on her children, but there was no more time … Be brave, she might have said, or maybe she only thought it.

I thought about how I must look, wet, red-fingered from cold, cutting a hole in a perfectly good barn for no reason. "I don't want to tell you what to do," Shep began. This, I'd found, was a very common statement in the North Country. You're not considered rude if you don't return phone calls, or if you get drunk while working, or fail to show up as promised, but telling someone how to do something is bad form and requires a disclaimer.

Forever in debt to your priceless advice.

Hey! Wait! I've got a new complaint! Forever in debt to your priceless advice.

Laß dir von keinem Fachmann imponieren, der dir erzählt: "Lieber Freund, das mache ich schon seit zwanzig Jahren so!"—Man kann eine Sache auch zwanzig Jahre lang falsch machen.

Vir prudens non contra ventum mingit. (A wise man does not urinate against the wind.) Roman proverb

I need you like - like light. You're light, all right - like a flame to a moth. I told you once that you shouldn't mess with forbidden things - I should have taken my own advice.

He who will not listen to any advice, nor be corrected in his writings, is a rank pedant.

We can give advice, but we cannot give conduct.

Nothing is less sincere than the manner of asking and giving advice. He who asks it seems to have a respectful deference for the opinion of his friend; though he only aims at making him approve his own, and be responsible for his conduct. And he who gives it, repays the confidence reposed in him by a seemingly disinterested zeal; though he seldom means anything by the advice he gives but his own interest or reputation.

I tried to warn her," Linda said, "but you could tell she'd gotten into it. She changed. She began hanging around with undesirable types, rough, tough people. I'd see her in bars and she always seemed to go after the street people.

Sometimes I give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.