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The worst men often give the best advice.
Our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts.
Author: Philip James Bailey
Source: Festus (sc. A Village Feast, Evening)
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Remember Lot's wife.
Author: Bible
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.
Author: Bible
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.
Author: Bible
Source: Proverbs (ch. XXIV, v. 6)
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A fop sometimes gives important advice.
[Fr., Un fat quelquefois ouvre un avis important.]
Author: Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
Source: L'Art Poetique (IV, 50)
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And may you better reck the rede,
Than ever did th' adviser.
Author: Robert Burns
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.
Author: Robert Burns
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.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
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.]
Author: Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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.
Author: George Chapman
Source: The Gentleman Usher (act IV, sc. 1)
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'Twas good advice, and meant,
"My son, be good."
Author: George Crabbe
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.
Author: Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
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.
Author: Robert Herrick
Source: Caution in Councell
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What advice you give, be short.
[Lat., Quidquid praecipies esto brevis.]
Author: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Source: Ars Poetica (CCCXXXV)
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We give advice, but we do not inspire conduct.
Author: Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
Source: Maxim (403)
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In great straits and when hope is small, the boldest counsels are
the safest.
Author: Titus Livy
Source: Annales (XXV, 38)
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Hazard not your wealth on a poor man's advice.
[Sp., No adventures mucho tu riqueza.]
Author: Don Juan Manuel
Source: El Conde Lucanor
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The secret counsels of princes are a troublesome burden to such
as have only to execute them.
[Fr., C'est une importune garde, du secret des princes, a qui
n'en que faire.]
Author: Michael Eyquen de Montaigne
Source: Essays (III, 1)
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Take the first advice of a woman and not the second.
[Lat., Primo dede mulieris consilio, secundo noli.]
Author: Gilbertus Cognatus Noxeranus
Source: Sylloge
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Those who give bad advice to the prudent, both lose their pains
and are laughed to scorn.
[Lat., Consilia qui dant prava cautis hominibus,
Et perdunt operam et deridentur tupiter.]
Author: Phaedrus (Thrace of Macedonia)
Source: Fables (I, 25)
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Be niggards of advice on no pretense;
For the worst avarice is that of sense.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: Essay on Criticism (l. 578)
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One can advise comfortably from a safe port.
[Ger., Vom sichern Port lasst sich's gemachlich rathen.]
Author: Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
Source: Wilhelm Tell (I, 1, 146)
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When a wise man gives thee better counsel, give me mine again.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: King Lear (Fool at II, iv)
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Bosom upon my counsel;
You'll find it wholesome.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Life of King Henry the Eighth (Norfolk at I, i)
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Here comes a man of comfort, whose advice
Hath often stilled my brawling discontent.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Measure for Measure (Mariana at IV, i)
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Advice is like snow -- the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Source: None
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We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.
Author: William R. Alger
Source: None
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No one wants advice -- only corroboration.
Author: John Steinbeck
Source: None
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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.
Author: John Gray
Source: None
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It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides.
Author: Jane Austen
Source: None
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A good scare is worth more than good advice.
Author: Horace
Source: None
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Giving advice to a stupid man is like giving salt to a squirrel.
Author: Kashmiri Proverb
Source: None
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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
Author: Erica Jong
Source: None
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If advice will not improve him, neither will the rod.
Author: Greek Proverb
Source: None
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He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.
Author: Karl Von Knebel
Source: None
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If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't give advice.
Author: Chinese Proverb
Source: None
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Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.
Author: Thomas L. Masson
Source: None
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We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do.
Author: Henry Wheeler Shaw
Source: None
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I don't give advice. I can't tell anybody what to do. Instead I say, this is what we know about this problem at this time. And here are the consequences of these actions.
Author: Joyce Brothers
Source: None
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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.
Author: Hannah Whitall Smith
Source: None
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If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle.
Author: Jack Adams
Source: None
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Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
Author: Publilius Syrus
Source: None
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A word to the wise ain't necessary -- it's the stupid ones who need the advice.
Author: Bill Cosby
Source: None
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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.
Author: Oscar Wilde
Source: None
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