Famous Quotes - Tags - Advice
- ... advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive. More
- A piece of advice always contains an implicit threat, just as a threat always contains an... More
- A private should preserve a respectful attitude toward his superiors, and should seldom or never... More
- Advice is more agreeable in the mouth than in the ear. More
- Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t. More
- Advice you take from me comes to you crutched
Like a beggar youth zealous for old age. More
- Ah, gentle dames! it gars me greet,
To think how mony counsels sweet,
How mony... More
- All the rest was indefinite, as the soundest advice ever is. More
- Although this garrulity of advising is born with us, I confess that life is rather a subject of... More
- Although those notes, in conformity with custom, come after the poem, the reader is advised to... More
- And they be these: the wood, the weed, the wag.
The wood is that which makes the gallow... More
- Ask your neighbor only about things you know better yourself. Then his advice could prove valuable. More
- Be checked for silence,
But never taxed for speech. More
- Bear free and patient thoughts. More
- Children, confine your lights in jellied rules;
Resemble graves; be metaphysical... More
- Consult. To seek another’s approval of a course already decided on. More
- Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,
But not expressed in fancy, rich, not gaudy,
For... More
- Counsel men to discipline their children, but not to divorce their wives. More
- Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom. More
- Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition,
By that sin fell the angels; how can man... More
- Do not, as some ungracious pastors do,
Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven,
Whilst... More
- Evil counsel travels fast. More
- Experience cannot be transferred. We may give wise advice, but we cannot give wisdom to follow it. More
- First fight. Then fiddle. More
- Fools think their own way is right, but the wise listen to advice. More
- For I must tell you friendly in your ear,
Sell when you can, you are not for all markets. More
- Franklin said once in one of his inspired flights of malignity—
Early to bed and early to... More
- Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice,
Take each man’s censure, but reserve thy judgment. More
- Go chase into the house a lucky foot.
And, O my son, be, on the one hand, good,
And do... More
- Good advice is never as helpful as an interest-free loan. More
- Good medicine is bitter to the taste. More
- Good medicine is bitter, but it cures illness. More
- Green springs the tree, hemp grows, the wag is wild,
But when they meet, it makes the timber... More
- He who does not listen to the words of his elders will surely suffer soon. More
- He who plays advisor is no longer ambassador. More
- Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot
That it do singe yourself. More
- Hold the high way and let they ghost thee lead
And Truthe shall deliver, it is no dread. More
- Honest advice is unpleasant to the ears. More
- I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself. More
- I cannot give advice. How can I when I do not authorise success. I authorise it alright. Smile. More
- I have lived some thirty-odd years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of... More
- I pray thee, cease thy counsel,
Which falls into mine ears as profitless
As water in a... More
- I shall th’effect of this good lesson keep
As watchman to my heart. More
- I wish to God that you had as much pleasure in following my advice, as I have in giving it to you. More
- If I had a thousand sons, the first humane principle I would
teach them should be, to... More
- If one ventures a word with you, will you be offended? But who can keep from speaking? More
- If we still advise we shall never do. More
- If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours... More
- if you ever, ever, dare
To stop a grizzly bear,
You will never meet another grizzly bear. More
- In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody’s... More
- It is a good divine that follows his own instructions; I can easier teach twenty what were good... More
- It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that... More
- It is always a matter, my darling,
Of life or death, as I had forgotten. I wish
What I... More
- It is an imprudence common to kings to listen to too much advice and to err in their choice. More
- It is as often a weakness in the aged to dictate to the young, as it is folly in the young to... More
- It is sometimes a point of as much cleverness to know to make good use of advice from others as... More
- I’m not a teacher: only a fellow-traveller of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead—ahead... More
- I’ve been asked to give some words of advice for young women entering library/information... More
- Kill thy physician, and the fee bestow
Upon the foul disease. More
- Let go thy hold when a great wheel runs down a hill lest it break thy neck with following; but... More
- Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a... More
- Listen, little boy. In this business, there’s only one law you gotta follow to keep outta... More
- Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none. More
- Love moderately: long love doth so. More
- Make less thy body hence, and more thy grace.
Leave gormandizing; know the grave doth... More
- Men may conseile a womman to be oon,
But conseiling nis no comandement.
He putte it in... More
- Men
Can counsel and speak comfort to that grief
Which they themselves not feel; but,... More
- My tale is of a cock, as ye may hear,
That took his counsel of his wife, with sorrow,
To... More
- Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And... More
- Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties. More
- Nothing is permanent in this wicked world—not even our troubles. More
- O Lord, I could have stayed here all the night
To hear good counsel. O, what learning is! More
- O that men’s ears should be
To counsel deaf, but not to flattery! More
- Of course I want to be good, but that may not be to your advantage. More
- One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not... More
- Parents cannot expect advice to have the same force upon their children as experience has upon... More
- Pause awhile,
And let my counsel sway you in this case. More
- Put on your rubbers and you won’t catch cold.
Here’s hell, there’s heaven. Go to Sunday... More
- Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing. More
- Say “Yessum” to the ladies, an’ “Yessur” to the men,
And when they’s company,... More
- Seems like everything people oughta know they just don’t want to hear. I guess that’s the big... More
- Sincere advice may offend the ear but is beneficial to one’s conduct. More
- Some of these people need ten years of therapy—ten sentences of mine do not equal ten years of... More
- Speak as you think, be what you are, pay your debts of all kinds. I prefer to be owned as sound... More
- Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether. More
- That man has offered me unsolicited advice for six years, most of it bad. More
- The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best... More
- The Gospel of the army is cunning, as of all other human activities. The wisdom of the snake... More
- The most consistent gift and burden of motherhood is advice. More
- The robbed that smiles steals something from the thief;
He robs himself that spends a... More
- The symbol in Chinese for crisis is made up of two ideographs: one means danger, the other means... More
- Then let yourself love all that you take delight in
Accept yourself whole, accept the... More
- There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth... More
- There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad. More
- There is nothing men are so generous of as advice. More
- There is nothing more hateful than bad advice. More
- These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep... More
- This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou... More
- This age-old truth I to thee impart
Act according to the dictates of your art
Because if... More
- Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel. More
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