Quotes About Advice

Don´t loose the lesson, but don´t miss it either.

One man envies the success in life of another, and hates him in secret; nor is he willing to give him good advice when he is consulted, except it be by some wonderful effort of good feeling, and there are, alas, few such men in the world. A real friend, on the other hand, exults in his friend?s happiness, rejoices in all his joys, and is ready to afford him the best advice.

Bring a wife home to your house when you are of the right age, not far short of 30 years, nor much above this is the right time for marriage.

He for himself weaves woe who weaves for others woe, and evil counsel on the counselor recoils.

A man who works evil against another works it really against himself, and bad advice is worst for the one who devised it

It is best to work, at whatever you have a talent for doing, without turning your greedy thought toward what some other man possesses, but take care of your own livelihood, as I advise you.

Better marry a maiden, so you can teach her good manners, and in particular marry one who lives close by you. Look her well over first. Don't marry what will make your neighbors laugh at you, for while there's nothing better a man can win him than a good wife, there's nothing more dismal than a bad one.

The wise councillor must always prepare for his fall.

For a month he is at home: he reads. He reads his Testament, but he knows what it says. He reads Petrarch whom he loves, reads how he defied the doctors: when they had given him up to fever he lived still, and when they came back in the morning, he was sitting up writing. The poet never trusted any doctor after that; but Liz left him too fast for physician's advice, good or bad, or for the apothecary with his cassia, his galingale, his wormwood, and his printed cards with prayers on.

was the king himself, solicitous for a mother-to-be, who had advised Rafe to send Helen to Kent, away from the pestilence: but now he has forgotten to ask after her.

The monuments of dead monarchs draw together, as if their bones were counselling each other; and the prophetic pavements beneath them, those stones of onyx, porphyry, green serpentine and glass, advise us through their inscriptions how many years the world will last.

Policy is the servant of reason. It is a sort of blasphemy to make human reason contradict itself and advise in the name of policy what it forbids in the name of morality.

If you want my advice," he says slowly, "love doesn't grow well, fed on pain. Grant me that I know that at least.

You should tell him, I say. Which is not bad advice, I think. Not advice I would take myself, but that doesn't necessarily make it bad.

Girls like her, my grandfather once warned me, girls like her turn into women with eyes like bullet holes and mouths made of knives. They are always restless. They are always hungry. They are bad news. They will drink you down like a shot of whisky. Falling in love with them is like falling down a flight of stairs.

Or you could try not talking to her," Call said. "When I don't talk to Tamara, she comes and hits me, so that would be a way that Kimiya might come to you first. Plus, once she hits you, it breaks the ice." "Or my shoulder," said Alex. "I mean, if it doesn't work, then, like they say, 'If you love someone, set them free. Don't lock them up underground in a cavern.

Fix your hair,' she says, then shrugs again. 'Or make it wilder. You look lovely either way.

Run! I want to shout. But, of course, that's the one thing I don't need to tell her to do.

Better to take consorts,' Locke says. 'Lots and lots of consorts.' 'Spoken like a man about to enter wedlock,' Cardan reminds him.

My advice," says Val Moren, "is tgat you learn to juggle better than I did, seneschal.

Don't listen to him.' He shakes his head with an exasperated look at his father. 'He's full of bad old-guy advice.' 'Just because I'm bad,' Madoc says with a grunt, 'doesn't mean the advice is.

I have never yet figured out what to do about good advice that you get, and that you know right away would help you, but that you cannot follow.

Aucun homme n'a pu découvrir le moyen de donner un conseil d'ami à aucune femme, pas même à la sienne.

My dear Pierre, the affair is clear, you'll have your head chopped off. Let that be a lesson to you!