A man must serve his time to every trade
Save censure — critics are ready-made.
Advice Quotes
Shakespeare and Alexander Pope tie for the most entries, with Charles Churchill, La Rochefoucauld and Franklin behind. The dependable sourced lines are the cynical ones. Wilde, in An Ideal Husband (1895), says he always passes on good advice because it is never of any use to oneself, and Bierce, in 1911, defines advice as the smallest current coin. Disraeli’s definition of critics, in Lothair (1870), as men who have failed in literature and art is filed here too.
Flagged: “Many receive advice, few profit by it,” credited to Publilius Syrus and disputed; “Most men give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain,” credited to Tom Stoppard, and “When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice,” credited to Saul Bellow, both marked misattributed.
The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms.
Whatever else he may do, a critic reveals and criticises himself.
Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.
"I’m an owl; you’re another. Sir Critic, good day."
And the barber kept on shaving.
It is every man's own fault if he does not take such advice as will be sure to lead him right.
I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.