Quotes About Advice

When a man comes to me for advice I find out the kind of advice he wants - and I give it to him.

Who needs advice most, usually likes it least.

Madam, we took you in order to have children, not to get advice.

And the king answered them roughly; and king Rehoboam forsook the counsel of the old men, And answered them after the advice of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add thereto: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.

Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.

Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.

Your friends praise your abilities to the skies, submit to you in argument, and seem to have the greatest deference for you; but, though they may ask it, you never find them following your advice upon their own affairs; nor allowing you to manage your own, without thinking that you should follow theirs. Thus, in fact, they all think themselves wiser than you, whatever they may say.

This opportunity shall not come again! I say to you, O my body, listen to my advice! You slander, and then praise others; you indulge in lies and gossip. You gaze upon the wives of others, O my soul; you steal and commit evil deeds.

Advice is what we ask for when we know the answer but wish we didn't.

Extremely foolish advice is likely to be uttered by those who are looking at the laboring vessel from the land.

Probably the biggest advantage of success resides in the fact that you don't have to listen to good advice any more.

Advice is free: The right answer will cost plenty.

Old men like to give good advice in order to console themselves for not being any longer able to set bad examples.

He who takes advice is wiser than the one who gives it.

When a thing is done, advice comes too late.

It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides.

In those days he was wiser than he is now - he used frequently to take my advice.

Good advice usually works best when preceded by a bad scare.

Although I am flexible and ready to take advice, I can't carry an umbrella of thoughts over my head that would distract me and affect my music making.

The way of a fool seems right to him, but a wise man listens to advice.

In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.

It is easy to give advice from a port of safety.

ADVICE, n. The smallest current coin. The man was in such deep distress, Said Tom, that I could do no less Than give him good advice. Said Jim: If less could have been done for him I know you well enough, my son, To know that's what you would have done. --Jebel Jocordy.

Generally speaking, when a woman offers unsolicited advice or tries to help a man, she has no idea of how critical and unloving he may sound to him.