Quotes About Advice
Opinionated quotations from the famous and not-so-famous.
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There comes a time when you have to stop crossing oceans for people who wouldn't jump puddles for you.
Unknown
How is it possible to expect mankind to take advice when they will not so much as take warning?
Swift
Many receive advice, few profit by it.
Publilius Syrus
He who will not answer to the rudder, must answer to the rocks.
Hervé
The worst men often give the best advice.
Philip James Bailey
To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.
John Churton Collins
Give advice to learn from your own hidden wisdom.
Duane Alan Hahn
He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.
Karl Von Knebel
We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice.
Jack Herbert
A good scare is worth more than good advice.
Horace
Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
Coleridge
Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.
Thomas L. Masson
Advice is like castor oil, easy to give, but dreadful to take.
Josh Billings
We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.
W. R. Alger
Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.
Lord Chesterfield
No one wants advice, only corroboration.
John Steinbeck
Most of us ask for advice when we know the answer but we want a different one.
Ivern Ball
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
Marquis de la Grange
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
Erica Jong
Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.
Josh Billings
In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whatever advice you give, be short.
Horace
Never flap your wings when a glide will do.
Duane Alan Hahn
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