Advice

"Christian-anarchism is based upon the answer of Jesus to the Pharisees when He said that he without sin was to cast the first stone; and upon the Sermon on the Mount which advises the return of good for evil and the turning of the other cheek."

"Know when to speake; for many times it brings Danger to give the best advice to kings."

"The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books."

"I had neither expert aid nor advice. I studied no courses in writing; until a year or so ago, I never read a book by anybody advising writers how to write."

"Quidquid præcipies esto brevis."

"I was also officially advised that during the long vacation it might be profitable to attain at least nodding acquaintance with the curriculum, and thus stave off the already likely possibility that I would receive a degree classified so low it would tantamount to a certificate of mental disability."

"A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercise, advise the gun. While this gives a moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness."

"I'm not advising cruelty or brutality with no purpose. My point is that cruelty with purpose is not cruelty-it's efficiency."

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

"...a scientist has the additional responsibility that comes with being a specialist: explaining science to the public, advising of its usefulness and benefits, and warning of its dangers and disadvantages.This is the responsibility of a specialist."

"My shame is as big as the earth, although I will do what my friends advise me to do. I once thought that I was the only man who persevered to be friend of the white man since they have come and cleaned out (robbed) our lodges, horses, and everything else, it is hard for me to believe white men anymore."

"A husband has no enforceable right to require a wife to advise him before she exercises her personal choices. Planned Parenthood v. Casey … of the [fetal-being] outweighs a wife's liberty, the State could require a married woman to notify her husband before she uses postfertilization contraceptives."

"We give advice, but we do not inspire conduct."

"Advice generally does require some very powerful argument to be taken."

"Easy ’tis advice to give, Hard it is advice to take Years that lived—and years to live, Wide and weary difference make."

"Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would be doing if he were alive today? 1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.2) advising the President.3) Desperately clawing at the inside of his coffin."

"What pilot has not been in positions where he was in danger and where perfect judgment would have advised against going? But when a man is caught in such a position he is judged only by his error and seldom given credit."

"In rebus asperis et tenui spe fortissima quæque consilia tutissima sunt."

"Remember Lot's wife."

"Second, I advise that their houses also be razed and destroyed.... Third, I advise that all their prayer books and Talmudic writings, in which such idolatry, lies, cursing, and blasphemy are taught, be taken from them...."

"I explained to the crowd that my voice was hoarse from a cold and that my physician had advised me not to attend. "I hope that you will not disclose to him that I have violated his instructions,""

"No adventures mucho tu riqueza Por consejo de hombre que ha pobreza."

"C'est une importune garde, du secret des princes, à qui n'en à que faire."

"It is not necessary that they have their own free churches for such idolatry. Second, I advise that their houses also be razed and destroyed. For they pursue in them the same aims as in their synagogues."

"...their inalienable right. I advised them to keep their arms; and further, I advised them to use their arms in their own defence, against all assailants — even assailants that might come to attack them, unconstitutionally and improperly using the queen’s name as their sanction."

"Tuesday the freighter steamed through the Straits of Gibraltar and for five days plowed eastward through the Mediterranean, past islands and peninsulas rich in history, so that on Saturday night the steward advised Dr. Cullinane, “If you wish an early sight of the Holy Land you must be up at dawn.."

"If I were an Englishman, I should esteem the man who advised a war with China to be the greatest living enemy of my country. You would be beaten in the end, and perhaps a revolution in India would follow."

"Sand Bravo, be advised, running diagnostics to scan for malfunction: Nome AFB: The skies are clear, station. You got yourself some phantom dots."

"When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares."

"Primo dede mulieris consilio, secundo noli."

"The Hairy Ape (1922): Be as artificial as you are, I advise. There's a sort of sincerity in that, you know. And, after all, you must confess you like that better."

"Tony Bushell had a friend in the Welsh Guards whose father had said to him on his twenty-first birthday: "Three pieces of invaluable advice for you, my boy: nevah hunt south of the Thames, nevah drink port after champagne and nevah have your wife in the morning lest something bettah should turn up during the day.""

"Do not take counsel of your fears."

"We have no constitutional authority to police the world or involve ourselves in nation building, in making the world safe for our style of democracy. Our founders advised against it and the early presidents followed that advice. If we believe strongly in our ideals, the best way to spread them is to set a good example so that others will voluntarily emulate us. Force will not work. Besides, we do not have the money."

"If you can't even clean up your own room, who the hell are you to give advice to the world?"

"Consilia qui dant prava cautis hominibus, Et perdunt operam et deridentur turpiter."

"People who give me advice... I reckon they're talking to themselves."

"He that first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best defense against a knave, was but an ill teacher, advising us to commit wickedness to secure ourselves."

"Without asking anybody's advice, I turned myself insane sitting under the same sun and the same clouds. I believed all along, one day everyone would go mad just to see me sane."

"Be niggards of advice on no pretense; For the worst avarice is that of sense."

"In the multitude of counsellors there is safety."

"The way of fools is right in their own eyes,"

"Never give advice unasked."

"Though thou hast ever so many counsellors, yet do not forsake the counsel of thy own soul."

"Indo-Fijians have a good future in Fiji but unfortunately they are being ill-advised, their community leaders lack good leadership. The idea is to look for opportunities, to be different and to identify your own advantages."

"For us the Hurtgen was one of the most costly, most unproductive, and most ill-advised battles that our army has ever fought."

"Les vieillards aiment à donner de bons préceptes, pour se consoler de n'être plus en état de donner de mauvais exemples."

"Mr. Taft never asked my advice in the matter, but if he had asked it, I should have emphatically advised him against thus stating publicly his religious belief."

"The critic's role is to steer him in the proper direction and advise changes in his technique and subject matter that will coordinate his efforts with the forces of development."

"If a man love to give advice, it is a sure sign that he himself wanteth it."