The trouble with giving advice is that people want to repay you.
Advice Quotes
He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.
The Gospel truth is that neither we nor the world can be saved by efforts at living well. If the human race could have straightened up its act by the simple pursuit of goodness, it would have done so long ago. We are not stupid; and Lord knows, from Confucius to Socrates to Mosed to […]
Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.
There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and a flatterer.
All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.
Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it annoys the pig.
The worst men often give the best advice.
“Seven years and six months!” Humpty Dumpty repeated thoughtfully. “An uncomfortable sort of age. Now if you’d asked my advice, I’d have said ‘Leave off at seven’ – but it’s too late now.” “I never ask advice about growing,” Alice said indignantly. “Too proud?” the other inquired. Alice felt even more indignant at this suggestion. […]
When Thales was asked what was difficult, he said, “To know one’s self.” And what was easy, “to advise another.”
