The repository contains 20 quotes in the category “Advice.”
Advice is least heeded when most needed.
He who won’t be counseled can’t be helped.
Benjamin Franklin
1706 — 1790
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Mark Twain
1835 — 1910
In life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is, “Hit the line hard.”
President Theodore Roosevelt
1858 — 1919
Advice is like kissing: It costs nothing and it’s a pleasant thing to do.
George Bernard Shaw
1856 — 1950
The worst men often give the best advice.
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
Marquis de la Grange
1639 — 1692
If you listen to the guys up in the stands, pretty soon you’ll be up there sitting with them.
Bobby Knight
1940 —
Advice is what you ask for when you already know the answer to a question but wish you didn’t.
Where no counsel is, the people fall, but in the multitude of counselors there is safety.
The only thing one can do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
Oscar Wilde
1854 — 1900
To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.
The greatest trust between man and man is the trust of giving counsel.
Francis Bacon
1561 — 1626
To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.
John Churton Collins
1848 — 1908
Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772 — 1834
Most of us ask for advice when we know the answer but we want a different one.
Good counsels never come too late.
Oft from shrivelled skin comes useful counsel.
If people wanted your unsolicited advice, they’d ask for it.
If you can’t sleep, count sheep. Don’t count endangered animals; you will run out.
Mitch Hedberg
1968 — 2005
