Advice Quotes

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher. (Socrates)
Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties. View quote
Aesop
Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it. View quote
Harry S. Truman
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. View quote
Erica Jong
People do not want advice - they want corroboration. View quote
John Steinbeck
Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway. View quote
Warren Buffett
The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books. View quote
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
When your mother asks, 'Do you want a piece of advice?' it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway. View quote
Erma Bombeck
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. View quote
Cicero
Many receive advice, but the wise profit from it. (Publilius Syrus)
Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate. View quote
Thornton Wilder
Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we decline the advice. View quote
Moshe Dayan
Nothing is given so willingly as advice. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both. View quote
Al Franken
She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it). View quote
Lewis Carroll
Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice. View quote
Saul Bellow
I don't turn to greeting cards for wisdom and advice, but they are a fine reflection of the general drift of the culture. View quote
Susan Orlean
In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend. (Solon)
The Athenians are right to accept advice from anyone, since it is incumbent on everyone to share in that sort of excellence, or else there can be no city at all. View quote
Protagoras
There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice. View quote
Joseph Addison
A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes. View quote
Joseph Addison
I always advise people never to give advice. View quote
P. G. Wodehouse