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Quotes About Advice

Neither give cherries to pigs nor advice to a fool.
~ Unknown
RASH, adj. Insensible to the value of our advice.
~ Ambrose Bierce
The people sensible enough to give good advice are usually sensible enough to give none.
~ Eden Phillpotts
Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.
~ Edna St Vincent Millay
No good sensible working bee listens to the advice of a bedbug on the subject of business.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.
~ Agatha Christie
I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.
~ Edna St Vincent Millay
Advice is the smallest current coin.
~ Ambrose Bierce
It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
~ Aeschylus
Never give advice unasked.
~ German proverb
Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.
~ William Somerset Maugham
We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.
~ Unknown
Ill Customs & bad Advice are seldom forgotten.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Don't give cherries to pigs or advice to fools.
~ Unknown
Old men are fond of giving advice to console themselves for being no longer in a position to give bad examples.
~ Francois La Rochefoucauld
My advice to you concerning applause is this: enjoy it but never quite believe it.
~ Samuel Lover
He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.
~ Unknown
It is a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it.
~ Unknown
Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.
~ Unknown
When a man wants your advice he generally wants your praise.
~ Lord Chesterfield
The worst men often give the best advice.
~ Unknown
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.
~ Hannah Whitall Smith
All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.
~ Alexis Carrel
I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
~ Gloria Steinem