Giving advice is a very peculiar affair; and when one has looked round the world for a time and seen how the most cleverly designed enterprises fail, and how the most absurd often turn out well, one becomes chary of giving any one advice. There is at bottom, a certain restraint in him who asks […]
Advice Quotes
No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
Ask a woman’s advice, and whatever she advises, Do the very reverse and you’re sure to be wise.
There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
He loves who advises.
To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.
It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
Who cannot give good counsel? ‘Tis cheap, it costs them nothing.
To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery.
We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.
