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He had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person. - Samuel Langhorne Clemens (used pseudonym Mark Twain) Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon and the deeper it sinks into the mind. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge Any one can give advice, such as it is, but only a wise man knows how to profit by it. - Charles Caleb Colton We ask advice, but we mean approbation. - Charles Caleb Colton When we feel a strong desire to thrust our advice upon others, it is usually because we suspect their weakness; but we ought rather to suspect our own. - Charles Caleb Colton 'Twas good advice, and meant, "My son, be good." - George Crabbe, The Learned Boy (vol. V, tale XXI) I do not like giving advice: it is incurring an unnecessary responsibility. - Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield No vice is so bad as advice. - Marie Dressler They first condemn that first advised the ill. - John Dryden Bad advice is often most fatal to the adviser. - Aulus Persius Flaccus (Persius) Remember this: they that will not be counselled cannot be helped. If you do not hear Reason, she will rap your knuckles. - Benjamin Franklin Good counsels observed are chains to grace, which neglected, prove halters to strange undutiful children. - Thomas Fuller (1) I agree with every word you write, and I can prove this in no better way than by taking your advice from beginning to end. - Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow, Letters of Ellen Glasgow To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It has been well observed that few are better qualified to give others advice than those who have taken the least of it themselves. - Oliver Goldsmith Extremely foolish advice is likely to be uttered by those who are looking at the laboring vessel from the land. - Sir Arthur Helps Know when to speake; for many times it brings Danger to give the best advice to kings. - Robert Herrick, Caution in Councell To attempt to advise conceited people is like whistling against the wind. - Thomas Hood Superfluous advice is not retained by the full mind. - Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) Whatever advice you give, be short. - Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) What advice you give, be short. [Lat., Quidquid praecipies esto brevis.] - Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Ars Poetica (CCCXXXV) A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice. - Edgar Watson Howe 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 to 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. - Wilhelm von Humboldt Advice is offensive, it shows us that we are known to others as well as to ourselves. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most like it least. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") Displaying page 2 of 5 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 [2] 3 4 5
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