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There is nothing we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
JOSEPH ADDISON, The Spectator, Oct. 12, 1712
Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.
It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.
AESCHYLUS, Prometheus Bound
When women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do. Then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it. If it fails, they generously give her the whole.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT, Little Women
Whatever advice you give, be brief.
Some men, like a wet dog, sprinkle a shower of advice over you when you are least prepared for a bath.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY, Keystones of Thought
To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery.
JOHN CHURTON COLLINS, Maxims and Reflections
Many receive advice, few profit by it.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS, Moral Sayings
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.
PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE, letter to A.C. Stanhope, Oct. 12, 1765
There are two things which a man should scrupulously avoid: giving advice that he would not follow, and asking advice when he is determined to pursue his own opinion.
NORMAN MACDONALD, Maxims and Moral Reflections
The trouble with advice is that it's usually something you don't want to hear.
CHARLES DE LINT, The Onion Girl
I only do what my gut tells me to. I think it's smart to listen to other people's advice, but at the end of the day, you're the only one who can tell you what's right for you.
JENNIFER LOPEZ, Woman's Day Magazine, Nov. 13, 2007
In my vast experience, I've found it always wiser to go along with female advice.... First, you make them happy by doing what they tell you. That's the main thing. Let them think they're in control. They love it. Then, if it turns out they were right, everything's cool. If it turns out they were wrong ... then you have the pleasure of basking in the glow of superiority.
RICHARD LAYMON, The Stake
It is as easy to give advice to yourself as to others, and as useless.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY, Keystones of Thought
Here is a thing which the more it is needed the more it is rejected: and this is advice, which is unwillingly heeded by those who most need it, that is to say, by the ignorant.
LEONARDO DA VINCI, Thoughts on Art and Life
We ask advice, but we mean approbation.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON, Lacon
If a man knows where to get good advice, it is as though he could supply it himself.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE, The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe
The vanity of being asked advice often makes us confirm the opinion of those that consult us.
NORMAN MACDONALD, Maxims and Moral Reflections
We do not attend to the advice of the sage and experienced because we think they are old, forgetting that they once were young and placed in the same situations as ourselves.
WILLIAM HAZLITT, Characteristics
Most men will go farther to give advice than to follow their own opinion.
NORMAN MACDONALD, Maxims and Moral Reflections
To ask and give advice is the cheapest bargain.
In giving advice, aptitude is often less to be considered, than seasonableness.
NORMAN MACDONALD, Maxims and Moral Reflections
The wisest man is he who does not require advice.
The character of giving advice often makes us accountable for the conduct of those we advise.
NORMAN MACDONALD, Maxims and Moral Reflections
His advice is most esteemed in other men's matters, that is unerring in his own--example is the most forcible argument of precept.
NORMAN MACDONALD, Maxims and Moral Reflections
We advise others better than ourselves.
NORMAN MACDONALD, Maxims and Moral Reflections
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