“When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.”
“Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.”
“Consult. To seek another's approval of a course already decided on.”
“He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.”
“We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do.”
“I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.”
“It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.”
“To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.”
“I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.”
“When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.”
“Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.”
“Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.”
“Most of us ask for advice when we know the answer but we want a different one.”
“The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment.”
“Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.”
“In those days he was wiser than he is now -- he used frequently to take my advice.”
“A word to the wise isn't necessary, it is the stupid ones who need all the advice.”
“The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.”
“Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.”
“It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.”
“I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me.”
“It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.”
“If one man says to thee, ''Thou art a donkey,'' pay no heed. If two speak thus, purchase a saddle.”
“There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.”
“If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't give advice.”
“The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.”
“The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.”
“Some of these people need ten years of therapy --ten sentences of mine do not equal ten years of therapy.”
“Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.”
“Advice is like snow; the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.”