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Advice

Definition: Guidance or recommendations offered with regard to prudent future action.
Number of Quotes: 21

Beware of advice about successful people and their methods. For starters, no two situations are alike. Your dreams of creating a dry-cleaning empire won't be helped by knowing that Thomas Edison liked to take naps.
Scott Adams

No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.
Honoré de Balzac

Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take.
Josh Billings

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

Wall Street is the only place people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from people who take the subway.
Warren Buffett

Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe,
Sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast,
Is that portentous phrase, I told you so,
Uttered by friends, those prophets of the past.

George Byron

She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
Lewis Carroll

The Prime Minister's advice to Her Majesty was unlawful, void and of no effect.
Judgment in case of R (Miller) v. The Prime Minister, September 24, 2019.
Brenda Hale

The world is full of people giving good advice to others, but I have thought we should all be better off if we would advise ourselves more, and others less. If I could take the good advice I am capable of giving, I should have no occasion to accept it from others.
E. W. Howe

I don't like to hire consultants. They're like castrated bulls: all they can do is advise.
Victor Kiam

Advice almost never functions as a social lubricant; eight or nine times out of ten it makes people lose face, crushes their will, and creates a grudge.
Yokio Mishima

A man with a bristling grey beard [a yachtsman], said: I made up my mind, when I bought my first boat, never to learn to swim ... When you're in a spot of trouble, if you can swim you try to strike out for the shore. You invariably drown. As I can't swim, I cling to the wreckage and they send a helicopter out for me. That's my tip, if you ever find yourself in trouble, cling to the wreckage!
John Mortimer

Get the advice of everybody whose advice is worth having - they are very few - and then do what you think best yourself.
Charles Stewart Parnell

What a difficult thing it is to ask someone's advice on a matter without coloring his judgment by the way in which we present our problem.
Blaise Pascal

Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.
Philip Stanhope

There should be some professional exam for these analysts. Most of the time they talk through their backsides.
Alan Sugar

He gets through too late who goes too fast.
Publilius Syrus

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
Publilius Syrus

I have found that the best way to give advise to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
Harry S. Truman

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
Oscar Wilde

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils.
Woodrow Wilson

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