Quotes About Advice

Here's good advice for practice: go into partnership with nature; she does more than half the work and asks none of the fee.

For I shall never advise a heathen or a Turk, let alone a Christian, to attack another or begin war.

Hence one should follow the advice of the hermit to whom a youth complained that he rather often experienced imaginations concerned with lusts and other sins and to whom the old man replied: "You cannot prevent the birds from flying over your head. But let them only fly and do not let them build nests in the hair of your head. Let them be thoughts and remain such; but do not let them become conclusions."32

Pride only breeds quarrels, but wisdom is found in all those who take advice Proverbs 13:10

My old mum always said, if brains was gunpowder he couldn't blow his fucking eyebrows off.

move on but, as Aunt Dolly had pointed out to him on many occasions

get yourself a good bed and a good pair of shoes, because if you ain't in one, you are in the other.

Mothers always knew what was best for their children, and it was a mother's duty to steer the child back onto the right track, especially if said child had gone astray—

If you ever catch on fire, try to avoid seeing yourself in the mirror, because I bet that's what REALLY throws you into a panic.

My father always told me, 'Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your girdle when your hips stick.

Never tell your mom her diet's not working. - Advice From Kids

A friend drops their plans when you're in trouble, shares joy in your accomplishments, feels sad when you're in pain. A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice--but when you don't follow it, they still respect and love you.

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.

For you to ask advice on the rules of love is no better than to ask advice on the rules of madness

My boyfriend used to ask his mother, 'How can I find the right woman for me?' and she would answer, 'Don't worry about finding the right woman- concentrate on becoming the right man.'

To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

My wife has been my closest friend, my closest advisor. And...she's not somebody who looks to the limelight, or even is wild about me being in politics. And that's a good reality check on me. When I go home, she wants me to be a good father and a good husband. And everything else is secondary to that.

Never get married in the morning - you never know who you might meet that night.

He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question, when a man should marry? 'A young man not yet, an elder man not at all

By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher...and that is a good thing for any man.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married

And now dear little children, who may this story read, To idle, silly flattering words, I pray you ne'er give heed: Unto an evil counsellor, close heart and ear and eye, And take a lesson from this tale, of the Spider and the Fly.

I don't listen to people's opinions. I have people around me who I can trust, but most of all I listen to myself.