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A fool think he needs no advice, but a wise man listens to others. [Proverbs 12:15]

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A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Horace

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A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

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A word to the wise is infuriating.

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A word to the wise isn't necessary, it is the stupid ones who need all the advice.

Bill Cosby

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Advice is like castor oil, easy to give, but dreadful to take.

Josh Billings

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Advice is like snow; the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Earl of Chesterfield

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Advice is the only commodity on the market where the supply always exceeds the demand.

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

Erica Jong

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Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

Henry David Thoreau

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Anybody who ask for advice nowadays just hasn't been listening.

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Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

Seneca the Younger

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Consult. To seek another's approval of a course already decided on.

Ambrose Bierce

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Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Walter Benjamin

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Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise.

David Seabury

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17

Give help rather than advice.

Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues

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18

Good advice is beyond all price.

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He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

Francis Bacon

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20

Hurt him. Hurt him and save him

Craig Pearce, Baz Luhrmann

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21

I have lived some thirty-odd years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.

Henry David Thoreau

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I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

G. K. Chesterton

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I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.

William Shakespeare

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I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

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25

I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me.

Hunter S. Thompson

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26

I'm not a teacher: only a fellow-traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead -- ahead of myself as well as you.

George Bernard Shaw

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If one man says to thee, Thou art a donkey, pay no heed. If two speak thus, purchase a saddle.

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If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't give advice.

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In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.

Earl of Chesterfield

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In those days he was wiser than he is now -- he used frequently to take my advice.

Winston Churchill

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It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Publilius Syrus

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It is easy to give advice from a port of safety.

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

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33

It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.

Aeschylus

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It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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35

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Publilius Syrus

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36

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

François de La Rochefoucauld

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37

Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.

Josh Billings

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Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married. Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. He that has no children brings them up well.

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Never give advice in a crowd.

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Never give advice unless asked.

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Never play leapfrog with a unicorn.

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Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.

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Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

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No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

Ben Jonson

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No one wants advice, only corroboration.

John Steinbeck

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One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

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Successful men follow the same advice they prescribe for others.

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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

Thomas Carlyle

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The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.

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The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.

Samuel Johnson

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The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is.

Phillips Brooks

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The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.

François de La Rochefoucauld

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The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.

Oscar Wilde

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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.

Francis Bacon

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There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.

Edward Dahlberg

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These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles.

Benjamin Franklin

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To advise is easier than to help.

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To advise is not to compel.

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We ask advice but we mean approbation.

Charles Caleb Colton

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We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.

François de La Rochefoucauld

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We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do.

Josh Billings

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We may give advice, but not the sense to use it.

François de La Rochefoucauld

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Whatever advice you give, be short.

Horace

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When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

Khalil Gibran

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Where no counsel is, the people fall; but in the multitude of counselors there is safety. [Proverbs 11:14]

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Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.

Benjamin Franklin

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Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.

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Your friends praise your abilities to the skies, submit to you in argument, and seem to have the greatest deference for you; but, though they may ask it, you never find them following your advice upon their own affairs; nor allowing you to manage your own, without thinking that you should follow theirs. Thus, in fact, they all think themselves wiser than you, whatever they may say.

William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne

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A fool think he needs no advice, but a wise man listens to others. [Proverbs 12:15]

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

A word to the wise is infuriating.

A word to the wise isn't necessary, it is the stupid ones who need all the advice.

Advice is like castor oil, easy to give, but dreadful to take.

Advice is like snow; the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.

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

Advice is the only commodity on the market where the supply always exceeds the demand.

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

Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

Anybody who ask for advice nowadays just hasn't been listening.

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

Consult. To seek another's approval of a course already decided on.

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise.

Give help rather than advice.

Good advice is beyond all price.

He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

Hurt him. Hurt him and save him

I have lived some thirty-odd years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.

I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me.

I'm not a teacher: only a fellow-traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead -- ahead of myself as well as you.

If one man says to thee, Thou art a donkey, pay no heed. If two speak thus, purchase a saddle.

If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't give advice.

In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.

In those days he was wiser than he is now -- he used frequently to take my advice.

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

It is easy to give advice from a port of safety.

It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.

It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married. Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. He that has no children brings them up well.

Never give advice in a crowd.

Never give advice unless asked.

Never play leapfrog with a unicorn.

Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

No one wants advice, only corroboration.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Successful men follow the same advice they prescribe for others.

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.

The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.

The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is.

The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.

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.

There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.

These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.

They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles.

To advise is easier than to help.

To advise is not to compel.

We ask advice but we mean approbation.

We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.

We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do.

We may give advice, but not the sense to use it.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

Where no counsel is, the people fall; but in the multitude of counselors there is safety. [Proverbs 11:14]

Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.

Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.