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QUOTES including the word: "advice"

Francis Bacon:
  • 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.

  • Horace:
  • Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work. ---- Whatever advice you give, be short.

  • Solon:
  • In giving advice, try to help, not to please.

  • Kierkegaard:
  • I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both.

  • Aeschylus:
  • It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.

  • Thales:
  • It's easy to give advice to others
    It's difficult to know yourself .

  • Galileo Galilei:
  • If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

  • Alexandre Dumas:
  • As a general rule...people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it.

  • Cicero:
  • Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

  • John Steinbeck:
  • You know how advice is - you only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyways.

  • Gracian:
  • Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.

  • Seneca:
  • When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.