"Some of these people need ten years of therapy --ten sentences of mine do not equal ten years of therapy." - Jeff Zaslow


"The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself." - Oscar Wilde


"Give help rather than advice." - Marquis De Vauvenargues


"Anybody who ask for advice nowadays just hasn't been listening." - Source Unknown


"Never play leapfrog with a unicorn." - Source Unknown


"Successful men follow the same advice they prescribe for others." - Source Unknown


"Advice is the only commodity on the market where the supply always exceeds the demand." - Source Unknown


"A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice" - Source Unknown


"A word to the wise is infuriating." - Source Unknown


"Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you." - Source Unknown


"Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something." - Henry David Thoreau


"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." - Henry David Thoreau


"If one man says to thee, Thou art a donkey, pay no heed. If two speak thus, purchase a saddle." - The Talmud


"I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me." - Hunter S. Thompson


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


"It is bad advice that cannot be changed." - Publilius Syrus


"These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new." - Harriet Beecher Stowe


"No one wants advice, only corroboration." - John Steinbeck


"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." - Hannah Whitall Smith


"We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do." - Henry Wheeler Shaw


"I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart." - William Shakespeare


"I'm not a teacher: only a fellow-traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead -- ahead of myself as well as you." - George Bernard Shaw


"Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment." - Seneca


"It is easy to give advice from a port of safety." - Johann Friedrich Von Schiller


"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." - David Seabury


"One can advise comfortably from a safe port." - Johann Friedrich Von Schiller


"Never give advice unless asked." - German Proverb


"Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married. Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. He that has no children brings them up well." - Spanish Proverb


"To advise is not to compel." - German Proverb


"To advise is easier than to help." - German Proverb


"If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't give advice." - Chinese Proverb


"Never give advice in a crowd." - Arabian Proverb


"Good advice is beyond all price." - Proverb


"Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present." - Proverb


"It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say." - Jawaharlal Nehru


"I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it." - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu


"Your friends praise your abilities to the skies, submit to you in argument, and seem to have the greatest deference for you; but, though they may ask it, you never find them following your advice upon their own affairs; nor allowing you to manage your own, without thinking that you should follow theirs. Thus, in fact, they all think themselves wiser than you, whatever they may say." - Lord Melbourne


"Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people." - Thomas L. Masson


"It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously." - J. C. Macaulay


"Number one: Don't frisk me. Don't hurt me physically. Don't get anywhere near my neck. And don't call me Regis. [Advice to his guests]" - David Letterman


"Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly." - Lope de Vega


"We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it." - Francois De La Rochefoucauld


"The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice." - Francois De La Rochefoucauld


"Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice." - Francois De La Rochefoucauld


"We may give advice, but not the sense to use it." - Francois De La Rochefoucauld


"Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them." - Knegge


"He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it." - Karl Von Knebel


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


"The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery." - Samuel Johnson


"No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master." - Ben Johnson


"Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance." - I Ching


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


"Whatever advice you give, be short." - Horace


"A good scare is worth more than good advice." - Horace


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


"The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment." - Sir Arthur Helps


"Always be nice to bankers. Always be nice to pension fund managers. Always be nice to the media. In that order." - Lord Hanson


"Generally speaking, when a woman offers unsolicited advice or tries to help a man, she has no idea of how critical and unloving he may sound to him." - John Gray


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


"To offer a man unsolicited advice is to presume that he doesn't know what to do or that he can't do it on his own." - John Gray


"When in doubt, don't." - Saul W. Gellerman


"When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies." - Kahlil Gibran


"They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles." - Benjamin Franklin


"Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it." - Benjamin Franklin


"I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes." - Gene Fowler


"There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad." - Edward Dahlberg


"A word to the wise isn't necessary, it is the stupid ones who need all the advice." - Bill Cosby


"We ask advice but we mean approbation." - Charles Caleb Colton


"Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favor." - John Churton Collins


"To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it." - John Churton Collins


"Advice is like snow; the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind." - Samuel Taylor Coleridge


"In those days he was wiser than he is now -- he used frequently to take my advice." - Winston Churchill


"I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite." - Gilbert K. Chesterton


"In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge." - Lord Chesterfield


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


"Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether." - Thomas Carlyle


"Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel." - George Chapman


"The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is." - Phillips Brooks


"Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected." - Josh Billings


"Advice is like castor oil, easy to give, but dreadful to take." - Josh Billings


"Consult. To seek another's approval of a course already decided on." - Ambrose Bierce


"Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom." - Walter Benjamin


"Where no counsel is, the people fall; but in the multitude of counselors there is safety." - Bible


"A fool think he needs no advice, but a wise man listens to others." - Bible


"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


"The worst men often give the best advice." - Philip James Bailey


"Most of us ask for advice when we know the answer but we want a different one." - Ivern Ball


"There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self." - Francis Bacon


"To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs." - Ghose Aurobindo


"We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain." - William R. Alger


"Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom s. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own." - Nelson Algren


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


"Be smart, be intelligent and be informed." - Tony Alesandra


"It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted." - Aeschylus