Advice Quotes

A never-failing way to get rid of a fellow is to tell him something for his own good.

About the worst advice you can give to some people is, “Be yourself.”

They that will not be counseled cannot be helped. If you will not hear Reason, she surely will rap your knuckles.

This letter will, to you, be as one from the dead. The writer will be in the grave before you can weigh its counsels. Your affectionate and excellent father has requested that I would address to you something which might possibly have a favorable influence on the course of life you have to run, and […]

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Good counsel failing men can give, for why? He that’s aground knows where the shoal doth lie.

Advice is offensive, it shows us that we are known to others as well as to ourselves.

Keep a good sense of humor, man. You’re going to need it. And enjoy yourself. Because, you know, we don’t know how long we’re here for.

I agree with every word you write, and I can prove this in no better way than by taking your advice from beginning to end.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.