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Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly. The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick. Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties. The worst men often give the best advice. We ask advice but we mean approbation. Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it. Whatever advice you give, be short. A good scare is worth more than good advice. We may give advice, but not the sense to use it. Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice. Good advice is beyond all price. Never give advice in a crowd. Never give advice unless asked. It is easy to give advice from a port of safety. No one wants advice, only corroboration. Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it. It is bad advice that cannot be changed. A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice. Successful men follow the same advice they prescribe for others. Anybody who ask for advice nowadays just hasn't been listening. Give help rather than advice. Others will follow your footsteps easier than they will your advice. An ordinary man away from home giving advice. Men give advice; God gives guidance. Anybody who thinks talk is cheap should get some legal advice. We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain. Advice is like castor oil, easy to give, but dreadful to take. To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it. When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice. The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice. A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes. We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice. We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it. Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people. I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it. It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted. He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it. We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do. Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long. You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement. Advice is the only commodity on the market where the supply always exceeds the demand.- Anonymous It is a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it. My advice to you concerning applause is this: enjoy it but never quite believe it. Quit now, you'll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you'll be halfway there. Go to friends for advice, woman for love, strangers for charity and relatives for nothing. You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board. A fool think he needs no advice, but a wise man listens to others. Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least. Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life. Most of us ask for advice when we know the answer but we want a different one. In those days he was wiser than he is now -- he used frequently to take my advice. A word to the wise isn't necessary, it is the stupid ones who need all the advice. Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them. It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously. If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't give advice. Advice from a veteran trapeze performer: Throw your heart over the bars and your body will follow. Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected. The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery. Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples. I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career. My advice is to look out for engineers. They begin with sewing machines and end up with nuclear bombs. Don't be discouraged if your children reject your advice. Years later they will offer it to their own offspring. There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad. Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example. If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves. Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.- Montaigne Michel Eyquem De Advice is like snow; the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind. The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself. |
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