Quotes About Advice

Wise men don't need advice. Fools don't take it.  ~ Benjamin Franklin


Give help rather than advice.  ~ Marquis De Vauvenargues


It is bad advice that cannot be changed.  ~ Publilius Syrus


When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him.  ~ Josh Billings


Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.  ~ Publilius Syrus


No enemy is worse than bad advice.  ~ Sophocles


I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.  ~ Oscar Wilde


Advice should always be consumed between two thick slices of doubt.  ~ Walter Schmidt


It is easy to give advice from a port of safety.  ~ Friedrich von Schiller


Often we help each other most by leaving each other alone.  ~ Elbert Hubbard


Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.  ~ Erica Jong


No one wants advice - only corroboration.  ~ John Stenbeck


Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.  ~ J.R.R. Tolkien


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


I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.  ~ Harry S. Truman


Men give advice; God gives guidance.  ~ Leonard Ravenhill


A never-failing way to get rid of a fellow is to tell him something for his own good.  ~ Kin Hubbard


He that won't be counseled can't be helped.  ~ Benjamin Franklin


We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice.  ~ Jack Herbert


As a general rule...people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it.  ~ Alexandre Dumas


When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.  ~ Marquis de la Grange


Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.  ~ Cicero


Don't give advice unless your asked.  ~ Amy Alcott


A woman in love never takes advice.  ~ Rosamond Marshall


Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.  ~ Robert Lynd


The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.  ~ Henry Ward Beecher


Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.  ~ Lord Chesterfield


People ask for criticism but they only want praise.  ~ Somerset Maugham


Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.  ~ Gordon R. Dickson


A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.  ~ Edgar Watson Howe


The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.  ~ Marianne Moore


The art of advice is to make the recipient believe he thought of it himself.  ~ Frank Tyger


In giving advice, seek to help, not please, your friend.  ~ Solon


A word to the wise ain't necessary, it's the stupid ones who need advice.  ~ Bill Cosby