Follow the advice of people and fail, and they have nothing for you but contempt. Pay no attention to them and succeed, and they will follow in your footsteps.

Advice is like food, and teaching is a menu.

Good advice is like a useful tool, yet it requires hands to make it work.

Good advice is like a proverb: the meaning depends on the interpretation.

Advice is like a stranger--if welcome, he stays the night; if not welcome, he returns home that day.

Giving advice is like playing pinball: only by pushing and pulling can you encourage the ball to go in a new direction and increase your score. But too much pushing and pulling can cause a tilt and stop the game.

One problem with being an expert on everything is that you cannot turn to anyone else for advice.

From the people who profess to be one's friends, advice is like a pill thickly enveloped in jam.

Human nature, when it will not receive advice, is like a stony plain without grass, animals will not approach, all remain at a distance from it.

Advice is like straw thrown on a fire.

Advice is like rain that soaks everything without being sought.

Good advice is like a tight glove; it fits the circumstances, and it does not fit other circumstances.

Advice is like bogus money, everybody wants to pass it on ye; nobody wants to take it.

Advice is like deep waters in the heart of the person, and a wise individual knows how to draw it out.

It is a weak thing to tell half your story, and then ask your friend's advice--a still weaker thing to take it.

The brain may take advice, but not the heart.

I'll give you the same advice I give my children: Never take advice from anybody.

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