In those days he was wiser than he is now-he used frequently to take my advice.
-Winston Churchill
Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.
-Seneca
Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take.
-Josh Billings
Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
-Francois de La Rochefoucauld
He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.
-Francis Bacon
He that won't be counselled can't be helped.
-Benjamin Franklin
Advice is like snow; the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
-Aeschylus
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.
-Francis Bacon
It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.
-Jawaharlal Nehru
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
-Proverb
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
-Oscar Wilde
Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least.
-Lord Chesterfield
Advice: the smallest current coin.
-Ambrose Bierce
We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.
-William Rounseville Alger
It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self.
-Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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.
-Ben Jonson
People smart enough to give good advice are usually smart enough to give none.
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Advice should always be consumed between two thick slices of doubt.
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