Quotes About Advice

Internet meme, c. 2014

Does anyone know if we can shower now? Or should we just keep washing our hands?

Just remember, there's a right way and a wrong way to do everything and the wrong way is to keep trying to make everybody else do it the right way.

Heatherlegh is the dearest doctor that ever was, and his invariable prescription to all his patients is, "lie low, go slow, and keep cool."

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

To learn about eye protection, ask someone who has one.

If someone breaks your heart just punch them in the face. Seriously. Punch them in the face and go get some ice cream.

Ben Franklin advises his grandson not to let even the American Revolution interrupt his studies, urging of young adulthood, "This is the time of life in which you are to lay the foundations of your future improvement and of your importance among men. If this season is neglected, it will be like cutting off the spring from the year.

I will always listen to my coaches. But first I listen to my body. If what they tell me suits my body, great. If my body doesn't feel good with what they say, then always my body comes first.

Never let a boy know you're crazy about him. He'll lose interest, and then you'll be a loser.

Communication with children should be based on respect and on skill; it requires (a) that messages preserve the child's as well as the parent's self-respect; and (b) that statements of understanding precede statements of advice or instruction. Eric,

In recommending free trade to developing countries, the Bad Samaritans point out that all the rich countries have free(ish) trade. This is, however, like people advising the parents of a six-year old boy to make him get a job, arguing that successful adults don't live off their parents and, therefore, that being independent must be the reason for their successes. They do not realize that those adults are independent because they are successful, and not the other way around.

My dad never told me that when you audition, you might not get the role. He wanted to wait until my first disappointment to tell me.

The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.

If becoming a grandmother was only a matter of choice, I should advise every one of you straight away to become one. There is no fun for old people like it!

One of Lincoln's intimates as a presidential candidate urged him to make no promises and not to part with those kind words which could be interpreted as promises.

Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.

Many years ago a very wise man named Bernard Baruch took me aside and put his arm around my shoulder. "Harpo my boy," he said, "I'm going to give you three pieces of advice, three things you should always remember." My heart jumped and I glowed with expectation. I was going to hear the magic password to a rich, full life from the master himself. "Yes sir?" I said. And he told me the three things. I regret that I've forgotten what they were.

Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.

I always get the best advice from myself.

You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.

The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

The next generation never learns anything from the previous one until it's brought home with a hammer. I've wondered why the next generation can't profit from the generation before but they never do until they get knocked in the head by experience.