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Quotations About Advice

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Few take advice, or physic, without wry faces at it.
Augustus William Hare and Juli
Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827


A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
Edgar Watson Howe
Country Town Sayings, 1911


I always pass on good advice. It's the only thing to do with it. It is never any use to oneself.
Oscar Wilde
An Ideal Husband, 1895


The best advice is this: Don't take advice and don't give advice.
Unknown


Sometimes I give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.
Mary Wortley Montagu


It is a good divine that follows his own instructions.
William Shakespeare


I never had a man come to me for advice yet, but what I soon discovered that he thought more of his own opinion than he did of mine.
Josh Billings


Old men are fond of giving good advice, to console themselves for being no longer in a position to give bad examples.
François La Roche


Stay busy, get plenty of exercise, and don't drink too much. Then again, don't drink too little.
Herman "Jackrabbit"


When we ask advice we are usually looking for an accomplice.
Charles Varlet de La Grange


The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others.
Unknown


Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
Ernest Hemingway


Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
Judy Garland


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


Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.
Cicero


"Be yourself" is about the worst advice you can give some people.
Tom Masson


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


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