I give you advice, which could I myself follow, I should be happy.
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.
On one level, wisdom is nothing more than the ability to take your own advice.
The first advice is to slow down, and not follow your first impulses.
Failure to follow this advice, he said, might lead our clan to disappear.
My advice would be to find that one thing that you are really passionate about and go for it.
We are seeing the need for veteran athletes to come together, to advice and to support each other.
Take the advice of a faithful friend, and submit thy inventions to his censure.
Curse God, and die. To George it seemed like remarkably sage and relevant advice.