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A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
joseph addison— 1712 In The Spectator, no.475, 4 Sep.
In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.
Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of— 1765 Letter to Arthur Charles Stanhope,12 Oct.
We have asked men for votes, they have given us advice. At present they are also giving us abuse.
Dame Rebecca formerly Cecily Isabel Fairfield West— 1913 'The SexWar: DisjointedThoughts on Men', in The Clarion, 18 Apr.
My advice to all students is to question everything! You never know where a "silly question" may lead you.
derek abbot— Statement in his Introductory profile at The University of Adelaide.
Be careful what you say if you wouldn't want it broadcast everywhere — because you never know. My basic advice would be — for trust — is : Live the way you ought to live — all the time — as much as you can help it.
ysabella brave— Trust — what's the secret?" (27 January 2008)
"Alas! poor Milicent, what encouragement can I give you? - or what advice - except that it is better to make a bold stand now, though at the expense of disappointing and angering both mother and brother, and lover, than to devote your whole life, hereafter, to misery and vain regret?"
anne brontë— Helen to Milicent (Ch. XXV : First Absence)
'T was good advice, and meant, my son, Be good.
George Crabbe— Tale xxi, "The Learned Boy".
...my advice to every student who is trying to make a decision for the years immediately after graduation: take the opportunity that in your mind is the most rewarding, that you are most passionate about and that you find most interesting and save the rest of your life for being risk averse. Whatever you want to do, this is the time to pursue it. Twenty years from now, your freedom to take risks will be limited.
kenneth griffin— Interview with Harvard Investment Magazine (Winter 2005)
[Belafonte] was a good teacher and looked after me. He said, 'You have such great talent, you must try not to be a tornado - be like a submarine. It was good advice when I found myself speaking at the UN Committee Against Apartheid and then the UN General Assembly.
miriam makeba— As quoted in Denselow, Robin (16 May 2008)
It’s just that it’s mind-boggling to me how many people I encounter every day who are struggling to subsist on a diet of bad advice about fake solutions to nonexistent problems.
merlin mann— Kung Fu Grippe
That it is unwise to be heedless ourselves while we are giving advice to others, I will show in a few lines.
phaedrus— Book I, fable 9, line 1.
A word of advice: If you get the choice between the upper and lower bunks in a cell, choose the lower. Prisons do not turn off their lights at night, and I spent a sleepless night, without a mattress, with a five-hundred-watt bulb shining directly into my eyes.
william powell— "Postscript", P. 157
And how we become like our parents! How their scorned advice – based, we felt in our superiority, on prejudices and muddled folk wisdom – how their opinions are subsequently borne out by our own discoveries and sense of the world, one after one. And as this happens, we realise with increasing horror that proposition which we would never have entertained before: our mothers were right!
alexander mccall smith— Love Over Scotland, chapter 68
Most college students, fortunately, are brash enough never to bother asking their elders for advice, which, in the field of computer science, is a good thing, because their elders are apt to say goofy, antediluvian things like "the demand for keypunch operators will exceed 100,000,000 by the year 2010" and "lisp careers are really very hot right now."
joel spolsky— "Advice for Computer Science College Students"
It is impossible to pursue a successful literary career and follow the advice of all one's 'best friends'.I feel compelled to follow the light which my own intellect & judgement cast upon my way, rather than any one of the many conflicting rays which other minds would lend me.
ella wheeler wilcox— from Preface to Poems of Passion 1883 edition
My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate — that's my philosophy.
thornton wilder— Sabiba, Act One
[John] von Neumann gave me an interesting idea: that you don't have to be responsible for the world that you're in. So I have developed a very powerful sense of social irresponsibility as a result of von Neumann's advice. It's made me a very happy man ever since. But it was von Neumann who put the seed in that grew into my active irresponsibility!
richard feynman— Part 3: "Feynman, The Bomb, and the Military", "Los Alamos from Below", p. 132
Too often critics seem more intent on seeking new ways to alter Congress than to truly learn how it functions. They might well profit from the advice of Thomas Huxley, who said a century ago: "Sit down before facts as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion or you shall learn nothing."
jerry ford— Address at the University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida (3 November 1966); published in Gerald R. Ford,Selected Speeches (1973) edited by Michael V. Doyle
...the old axiom that 'all power corrupts' has doubtful validity, because it derives from our neglect of Plato 's advice to find men carefully and train them by methods which make them fit for heroes.
oswald mosley— Excerpt from Beyond the Pale by Nicholas Mosley
In his last testament to ‘Ali (peace be upon him), the Messenger of Allah (blessings of Allah be upon him and his family) told him: "O’ ‘Ali! I advice you to recite the Qur’an in every state (which you may find yourself in)."
— Man La Yahdhuruhul Faqih, Volume 4, Page 188
Know when to speake; for many times it brings Danger to give the best advice to kings.
Robert Herrick— Robert Herrick, Hesperides, Caution in Councell.
Would not the German princes at least intercede with Philip? Would they hinder the passage of the royal mercenaries from Germany? Saxony, Hesse, Wurtemburg, and the rest offer excellent advice, to beware of Philip, not to drive him to extremity, to avoid outrages.
— William in a letter to the Elector of Saxony-William the Silent (1902) by Frederic Harrison, p. 35
May I now pass on to this Congress advice which I received recently from a fellow Vermonter Either impeach him or get off his back.
— George Aiken, remarks in the Senate (November 7, 1973), Congressional Record, vol. 119, p. 36086; referring to President Richard Nixon.
I cannot properly give advice to anybody. It is very often supposed Judges can give advice, and I therefore take this public opportunity of saying that a Judge cannot do it.
— Bayley, J., Trial of Dewhurst and others (1820), 1 St. Tr. (N. S.) 607.
Many receive advice, few profit by it.
— Maxim 149. (Sentences)
Fools need advice most, but wise men only are the better for it.
Benjamin Franklin— Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack (1758).
We may give advice, but we cannot give conduct.
Benjamin Franklin— Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack (1758).
[This saying of Alphonso about Ptolemy's astronomy, that] "it seemed a crank machine; that it was pity the Creator had not taken advice."
thomas carlyle— Thomas Carlyle, History of Frederick the Great, Book II, Chapter VII. Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 147-148.
advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.
stanhope, philip, 4th earl of chesterfield— January 29, 1748.
advice most needed is least heeded.
— Mieder, Wolfgang; Kingsbury, Stewart A.; Harder, Kelsie B. (1992). A Dictionary of American Proverbs. Oxford University Press. p. 24.
