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Quotes About Advice

Sometimes a fool makes a good suggestion.
~ Nicolas Boileau
Attach yourself to those who advise you rather than praise you.
~ Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
A fop sometimes gives important advice.
~ Unknown
I listened eagerly to what they had to say and religiously followed their tips. Whatever I was told to buy, I bought. It took me a long time to discover that this is one method that never works.
~ Unknown
Don't go." "I have to." A regretful sigh. "And it's best if you don't remember any mermen." He tucked a strand of wet hair behind her ear. His voice stroked her skin like velvet. "Forget me." And she did.
~ Unknown
There is no permanent friendship between men, among men. Something goes wrong, somebody marries the wrong person, somebody advances too fast, somebody converts, somebody refuses good advice or bad advice, it didn't matter. It went up in a flash.
~ Norman Rush
Dad warned us all about water stations, trying to prepare us in case we ever went out and got caught far enough from home to be tempted to stop for water. His advice: "Don't do it. Suffer. Get your rear end home." Yeah.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Better to stay alive," I said. "At least while there's a chance to get free." I thought of the sleeping pills in my bag and wondered just how great a hypocrite I was. It was so easy to advise other people to live with their pain.
~ Octavia E. Butler
I was always a closet lover of acting. My mom was very practical. She never, ever restricted our dreams, always told us we could do or be anything. Then I said, 'Maybe I want to be an actor'. And she said, 'Maybe not that'.
~ Octavia Spencer
The death that kills a puppy first blinds him. The headstrong who won't listen will finally obey the summons of the death mat. The housefly who has nobody to advise it follows the corpse into the grave.
~ Unknown
The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
I'm opening up my heart to the idea of dating. It's funny - my friends would always come to me for romantic advice. I know nothing, and things have changed since I was dating in high school! I'm really trying hard to spend this time working on myself.
~ Olivia Wilde
He read his mind. He's a strange sort of man, isn't he? It's not just the advice and the wisdom that he has.
~ Omar Sharif
A person that does not value your time will not value your advice.
~ Orrin Woodward
The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistakes as soon as they recognize them.
~ Orson Scott Card
The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.
~ Oscar Wilde
An ordinary man away from home giving advice.
~ Oscar Wilde
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
~ Oscar Wilde
I always pass on good advice. It's the only thing to do with it. It is never any use to oneself.
~ Oscar Wilde
The only good thing to do with good advice is pass it on; it is never of any use to oneself.
~ Oscar Wilde
Never ask another person's advice about anything God makes you decide before Him.
~ Oswald Chambers
Now came the question, what should I do? "Nothing," the correct thing, according to the governor. "Stand for the county," my mother suggested. "Go as attaché to my cousin, the envoy to St. Petersburg," my relatives opined, who had triumphed, with much unholy glory, over my rustication, as is the custom of relatives from time immemorial.
~ Ouida
Only in 1795 did the Royal Navy heed decades of advice and begin enforcing the consumption of lime juice on its ships (giving rise to the term "limey").
~ Unknown