advice Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

52 advice Quotes
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“There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.”
George Sand Quotes
“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 Quotes
“A word to the wise ain't necessary, it's the stupid ones who need the advice.”
Bill Cosby Quotes
“To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
“Listen to advice and accept correction, then in the end you will be wise.”
Proverb Quotes
“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 Quotes
“The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.”
Oscar Wilde Quotes
“Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.”
Erica Jong Quotes
“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)
“Remember Lot's wife.”
Bible Quotes
Source: Luke (ch. XVII, v. 32)
“Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellers there is safety.”
Bible Quotes
Source: Proverbs (ch. XI, v. 14)
“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)
“A fop sometimes gives important advice. [Fr., Un fat quelquefois ouvre un avis important.]”
Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Quotes
Source: L'Art Poetique (IV, 50)
“And may you better reck the rede, Than ever did th' adviser.”
Robert Burns Quotes
Source: Epistle to a Young Friend
“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)
“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)
“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)
“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)
“'Twas good advice, and meant, "My son, be good."”
George Crabbe Quotes
Source: The Learned Boy (vol. V, tale XXI)
“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
“Know when to speake; for many times it brings Danger to give the best advice to kings.”
Robert Herrick Quotes
Source: Caution in Councell
“What advice you give, be short. [Lat., Quidquid praecipies esto brevis.]”
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) Quotes
Source: Ars Poetica (CCCXXXV)
“We give advice, but we do not inspire conduct.”
Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld Quotes
Source: Maxim (403)
“In great straits and when hope is small, the boldest counsels are the safest.”
Titus Livy Quotes
Source: Annales (XXV, 38)
“Hazard not your wealth on a poor man's advice. [Sp., No adventures mucho tu riqueza.]”
Don Juan Manuel Quotes
Source: El Conde Lucanor