Quotes with advice

  • No one wants advice, only corroboration.
  • My advice to people today is as follows: If you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.
  • Be original. That's my best advice. You're going to find that there's something that you do well, and try to do it with as much originality as you can, and don't skimp on the words. Work on the words.
  • My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.
  • Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
  • If you achieve success, you will get applause, and if you get applause, you will hear it. My advice to you concerning applause is this; enjoy it but never quite believe it.
  • 'Pain' is more indicative of what I like to do. I'm lyric-conscious. I like to tell stories, give advice. Instead of writing a 'Dear Abby' column, I do it on records.
  • I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.
  • I have no advice to give to young actors. To young, struggling actresses, my advice is to keep struggling. If you struggle long enough, you will never get in trouble and if you never get in trouble, you will never be much of an actress.
  • When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his good judgment, but his charming manners, that won her heart.
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example.
    ― Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
    ― Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Horace A good scare is worth more than good advice.
    ― Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Joseph Addison A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
    ― Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Thomas L. Masson Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.
    ― Thomas L. Masson
    American anthropologist, editor and author (1866 - 1934)
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  • Igor Stravinsky In the course of your work, you will from time to time encounter the situation where the facts and the theory do not coincide. In such circumstances, young gentlemen, it is my earnest advice to respect the facts.
    ― Igor Stravinsky
    Russian composer (1882 - 1971)
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  • J. C. Macaulay It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.
    ― J. C. Macaulay
    American clergyman and author (1900 - )
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  • Ivern Ball Most of us ask for advice when we know the answer but we want a different one.
    ― Ivern Ball
    American author (1926 - 1992)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge Advice is like snow; the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
    ― Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.
    ― Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Baltasar Gracian Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.
    Source: The Art of Worldly Wisdom
    ― Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Alexis Carrel All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.
    ― Alexis Carrel
    French surgeon, anatomist and biologist (1873 - 1944)
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  • Franklin P. Jones Anybody who thinks talk is cheap should get some legal advice.
    ― Franklin P. Jones
    American journalist (1908 - 1980)
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  • David Seabury 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
    American psychologist, author, and lecturer (1885 - 1960)
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  • Robert Lynd Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
    ― Robert Lynd
    American sociologist (1892 - 1970)
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  • Vauvenargues Give help rather than advice.
    ― Vauvenargues
    French philosopher (1715 - 1747)
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  • Gene Fowler I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.
    ― Gene Fowler
    American journalist, author and dramatist (1890 - 1960)
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  • Harry S. Truman I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
    ― Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Henry David Thoreau 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
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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