Quotes: advice
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Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example.
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Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
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A good scare is worth more than good advice.
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Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.
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Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.
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Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise.
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I have lived some thirty-odd years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.
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It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.
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'Be yourself' is about the worst advice you can give some people.
Source: The Book of Today (1923) -
'Pain' is more indicative of what I like to do. I'm lyric-conscious. I like to tell stories, give advice. Instead of writing a 'Dear Abby' column, I do it on records.
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A politicians willingness to listen to good advice rises in inverse proportion to how badly he thinks he is doing.
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A word to the wise isn't necessary, it is the stupid ones who need all the advice.
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Accept good advice gracefully—as long as it doesn't interfere with what you intended to do in the first place.
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Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.
