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.
Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.
You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.
That man has offered me unsolicited advice for six years, all of it bad!
Most men give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.
I must say that "Give Peace a Chance" has always seemed to me to be sensible advice.
A final word of advice: don't gloat about how well you have done.