A word to the wise ain't necessary, it's the stupid ones who need the advice.
Bill Cosby
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The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
Oscar Wilde
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If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't give advice.
Chinese Proverb
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Listen to advice and accept correction, then in the end you will be wise.
Proverb
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If you have a lot of tension and you get a headache, do what it says on the aspirin bottle: "Take two aspirin" and "Keep away from children".
Woody Allen
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My advice to those who think they have to take off their clothes to be a star is, once you're boned, what's left to create the illusion? Let 'em wonder. I never believed in givin' them too much of me.
Mae West
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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
Erica Jong
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The worst men often give the best advice.
Our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts.
Philip James Bailey
Quotes , Source: Festus (sc. A Village Feast, Evening)
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Remember Lot's wife.
Bible
Quotes , Source: Luke (ch. XVII, v. 32)
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Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of
counsellers there is safety.
Bible
Quotes , Source: Proverbs (ch. XI, v. 14)
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For by wise counsel thou shalt make thy war: and in multitude of
counsellers there is safety.
Bible
Quotes , Source: Proverbs (ch. XXIV, v. 6)
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And may you better reck the rede,
Than ever did th' adviser.
Robert Burns
Quotes , Source: Epistle to a Young Friend
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Ah, gentle dames! it gars we greet,
To think how mony consels sweet,
How mony lengthened, sage advices,
The husband frae the wife despises.
Robert Burns
Quotes , Source: Tam o'Shanter (l. 33)
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She had a good opinion of advice,
Like all who give and eke receive it gratis,
For which small thanks are still the market price,
Even where the article at highest rate is.
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Quotes , Source: Don Juan (canto XV, st. 29)
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They say that the best counsel is that of woman.
[Sp., Dicen, que el primer consejo
Ha de ser de la muger.]
Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Quotes , Source: El Medico de su Honra (I, 2)
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Let no man value at a little price
A virtuous woman's counsel; her wing'd spirit
Is feather'd oftentimes with heavenly words.
George Chapman
Quotes , Source: The Gentleman Usher (act IV, sc. 1)
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'Twas good advice, and meant,
"My son, be good."
George Crabbe
Quotes , Source: The Learned Boy (vol. V, tale XXI)
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I agree with every word you write, and I can prove this in no
better way than by taking your advice from beginning to end.
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
Quotes , Source: Letters of Ellen Glasgow
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Know when to speake; for many times it brings
Danger to give the best advice to kings.
Robert Herrick
Quotes , Source: Caution in Councell
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In great straits and when hope is small, the boldest counsels are
the safest.
Titus Livy
Quotes , Source: Annales (XXV, 38)
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