Advice

"Don't use strong drink, —pray let me advise, —It 's bad for the stomach, and ruins the eyes."

"Vom sichern Port lässt sich's gemächlich rathen."

"Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia. Dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it's worth."

"By 1922, General Hans von Seeckt, commander of the German armed forces, was secretly advising his government: "Poland's existence is intolerable, incompatible with the essential conditions of Germany's life. Poland must go and will go". He added that Poland's obliteration "must be one of the fundamental objectives of German policy...With the disappearance of Poland will fall one of the strongest pillars of the Versailles Peace, the hegemony of France."

"Bosom up my counsel, You'll find it wholesome."

"When a wise man gives thee better counsel, give me mine again."

"Here comes a man of comfort, whose advice Hath often still'd my brawling discontent."

"I pray thee cease thy counsel, Which falls into mine ears as profitless As water in a sieve."

"Direct not him, whose way himself will choose; 'Tis breath thou lack'st, and that breath wilt thou lose."

"Beware of a counsellor. And know before what need he hath: for he will devise to his own mind."

"Seek no advice from a woman about her rival, from a coward about war, from a merchant about business, from a buyer about value, from a miser about generosity, from a cruel person about well-being, from a worthless worker about his work, from a seasonal laborer about the harvest, from an idle slave about a great task— pay no attention to any advice they give."

"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. That has been my secret, and I have never had any quarrels. What if people are fools or knaves, it is not your house-keeping and you had far better leave them to their fate. The more you try to prove yourselves in the right and D. in the wrong, the more you will confirm him in his own views. Nothing makes people more furious than being proved to be in the wrong; and even if you convince D. he will always hate you."

"No one wants advice, only corroboration."

"A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes."

"Che spesso avvien che ne' maggior perigli Son più audaci gli ottimi consigli."

"A dead father's counsel, a wise son heedeth."

"Facile omnes, quum valemus, recta consilia ægrotis damus."

"What question can be here? Your own true heart Must needs advise you of the only part: That may be claim'd again which was but lent, And should be yielded with no discontent; Not surely can we find herein a wrong, That it was left us enjoy for so long."

"Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill."

"It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal."

"I am at heart a propagandist, "he says," a tremendous hater, a tiresome nag, complacently positive that there is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise."

"In such green palaces the first kings reign'd, Slept in their shades, and angels entertain'd; With such old counselors they did advise, And frequenting sacred groves grew wise."

"You know, I want to just advise people watching at home playing that now popular drinking game of you take a shot whenever the Republicans say something that's not true:Please assign a designated driver."

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

"If only the last of these is justifiable, all are understandable concerns. But it is hard to see what can be the purpose of musicology if not to advise people on what to hear and how to hear it."

"The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines."

"To forget good counsel is to forget the experiences that prompted the soul to desire prudence: and when those are forgotten, it is not surprising that prudence itself is forgotten."

"Many receive advice, only the wise profit by it."

"He can always pick out the Right Kind for the Other Fellow."

"Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties."