Advice

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself

Old people are fond of giving good advice; it consoles them for no longer being capable of setting a bad example

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice

A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes

Time is the wisest counselor of all

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

If the lion was advised by the fox, he would be cunning

It is an easy thing to talk of patience to the afflicted

To advise is not to compel

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite

If I’d listened to my consumers, I’d have given them a faster horse

There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad