ADVICE

Advice

• Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. - Cicero
• A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice. - Edgar Watson Howe, Country Town Sayings, 1911
• I always pass on good advice. It's the only thing to do with it. It is never any use to oneself. - Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband, 1895
• Sometimes I give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it. - Mary Wortley Montagu
• I never had a man come to me for advice yet, but what I soon discovered that he thought more of his own opinion than he did of mine. - Josh Billings
• No one wants advice - only corroboration. - John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
• It is more easy to be wise for others than for ourselves. - François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
• We hate to have some people give us advice because we know how badly they need it themselves. - Anonymous
• The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others. - Anonymous
• When we ask advice we are usually looking for an accomplice. - Charles Varlet de La Grange, Pensées, 1872
• Old men are fond of giving good advice, to console themselves for being no longer in a position to give bad examples. - François La Rochefoucauld
• The best advice is this: Don't take advice and don't give advice. - Anonymous
• When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him. - Henry Wheeler Shaw, a.k.a. Josh Billings
• Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it. - Gordon R. Dickson
• Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. - Erica Jong, How to Save Your Own Life, 1977