ADVICE

Related Subjects: Counsel, Persuasion, Prudence, Teaching, Warning

1. Always advise a friend to do that which you are sure he is not going to do. Then, if his venture fails, you will receive credit for having warned him. If it succeeds, he will be happy in the opportunity to tell you that you were dead wrong.—GEORGE ADE

2. The worst men often give the best advice.—PHILIP J. BAILEY, Festus

3. Advice: the smallest current coin.—AMBROSE BIERCE, The Devil's Dictionary

4. In ploughman phrase, "God send you speed,"
   Still daily to grow wiser;
   And may ye better reck the rede
   Than ever did th' adviser!—BURNS, Epistle to a Young Friend

5. He loves who advises.—ROBERT BURTON, Anatomy of Melancholy

6. Good but rarely came from good advice.—BYRON, Don Juan

7. She had a good opinion of advice, Like all who give and eke receive it gratis,
   For which small thanks are still the market price.—BYRON, Cain

8. Advice is seldom welcome ; and those who want it the most always like it the least.—LORD CHESTERFIELD, Letters

9. Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.—CICERO, Epistulae ad Atticum

10. To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.—CHURTON COLLINS, Aphorisms

11. 'Twas good advice, and meant, "My son, be good."—GEORGE CRABBE, The Learned Boy

12. They first condemn that first advis'd the ill.—DRYDEN, Absalom and Achitophel

13. No gift is more precious than good advice.—ERASMUS, Convivium Religiosum

14. Take the advice of a faithful friend, and submit thy inventions to his censure.—THOMAS FULLER, Holy State

15. Extremely foolish advice is likely to be uttered by those who are looking at the labouring vessel from the land.—ARTHUR HELPS, Friends in Council

16. Whatever advice you give, be brief.—HORACE, Ars Poetica

17. I lay very little stress either upon asking or giving advice. Generally speaking, they who ask advice know what they wish to do and remain firm in their intentions. A man may allow himself to be enlightened on various points, even upon matters of expediency and duty, but after all he must determine his course of action for himself.—HUMBOLDT

18. Advice  is  offensive, . . . it shows us that we are known to others as well as to ourselves.—SAMUEL JOHNSON, The Rambler

19. Nothing is given so profusely as advice.—LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, Maxims

20. Hazard not your wealth on a poor man's advice.—PRINCE DON JUAN MANUEL, Conde Lucanor

21. Ask a woman's advice, and, whate'er she advise,
    Do the very reverse and you're sure to be wise.—THOMAS MOORE, How to Make a Good Politician

22. Only when a man is safely ensconced under six feet of earth, with several tons of enlauding granite upon his chest, is he in a position to give advice with any certainty, and then he is silent.—A. EDWARD NEWTON, Amenities of Book-Collecting

23. Be niggards of advice on no pretence,
    For the worst avarice is that of sense.—POPE, Essay on Criticism

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

25. Take your wife's first advice, not her second.—Proverb

26. Be slow of giving advice, ready to do a service.—Proverb

27. It is bad advice that cannot be altered.—PUBLILIUS SYRUS, Sententiae

28. Many receive advice, few profit by it.—PUBLILIUS SYRUS, Sententiae

29. Advice comes too late when a thing is done.—SAMUEL RICHARDSON, Clarissa Harlowe

30. To one who knows, it is superfluous to give advice; to one who does not know, it is insufficient.—SENECA, Epistulae ad Lucilium

31. Here comes a man of comfort whose advice
    Hath often still'd my brawling discontent.—SHAKESPEARE, Measure for Measure

32. Good advice is one of those injuries which a good man ought, if possible, to forgive, but at all events to forget at once.—HORACE SMITH, The Tin Trumpet

33. How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice, when they will not so much as take warning?—SWIFT, Thoughts on Various Subjects

34. For my own part, I never did nor do I believe I ever shall give advice to a woman who is setting out on a matrimonial voyage ... A woman very rarely asks an opinion or seeks advice on such an occasion till her mind is wholly made up, and then it is with the hope and expectation of obtaining a sanction, and not that she means to be governed by your disapproval.—WASHINGTON