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.
For me, because I’m a senior player, I’m that one person who always gives out their advice.
The best advice about getting older? Just be thankful you're not dead!
Coach Manqoba is a father figure to me and continuously gives me valuable advice.
He doesn’t have to listen to me, nor do I have to give him advice and say ‘do this and do that’.
Once again, the advice I give any youngster coming through and talking to me is to learn himself.