Quotes

Fools need Advice most, but wise Men only are the better for it.
-Benjamin Franklin

Advice, The smallest current coin.
-Ambrose Bierce

Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.
-J. R. R. Tolkien

Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.
-Gordon R. Dickson

In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.
-Solon

Who cannot give good counsel? 'tis cheap, it cost them nothing.
-Robert Burton

There is no cramming for the test of life.
-Madeleine Albright

A woman's advice is a poor thing, but he is a fool who does not take it.
-Spanish proverb

Advice is given freely because so much of it is worthless.
-James Geary

We may give advice, but we cannot give conduct.
-Benjamin Franklin

Take this advice: know when to stay and when to get out.
-Swami Raj

We must be very careful when we give advice to younger people: sometimes they follow it!
-Edsger W. Dijkstra

No enemy is worse than bad advice.
-Sophocles

When your mother asks, "Do you want a piece of advice?" it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway.
-Erma Bombeck

He can always pick out the Right Kind for the Other Fellow.
-George Ade

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

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
-Erica Jong

Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.
-Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Advice is generally much better received when the advisor is entertaining.
-Anonymous Author

He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.
-Karl von Knebel

Never give advice - a wise man won't need it, a fool won't heed it.
-Anonymous Author

Advice after injury is like medicine after death.
-Danish proverb

Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most, always like it the least.
-Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-Joseph Addison

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

It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, - always do what you are afraid to do.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

No one wants advice - only corroboration.
-John Steinbeck

Advice is more agreeable in the mouth than in the ear.
-Mason Cooley

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

Good advice is better than bad advice, if you know the difference.
-Anonymous Author