Advice Quotes, Sayings about giving and taking advice

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Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
- Oscar Wilde

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It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.
- Anonymous

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Don’t try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.
- Anonymous

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I shall tell you a great secret my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
- Anonymous

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People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.
- Anonymous

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Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
- Anonymous

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Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and deeper it sinks into the mind.
- Anonymous

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Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
- Anonymous

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Good things, when short, are twice as good.
- Anonymous

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Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
- Anonymous

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It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
- Anonymous

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Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive.
- Anonymous

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Take the first advice of a woman and not the second.
- Anonymous

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Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that’s no reason not to give it.
- Anonymous

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Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.
- Anonymous

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Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
- Anonymous

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If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice.
- Anonymous

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Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.
- Anonymous

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There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
- Anonymous

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The best advice I can give is to ignore advice. Life is too short to be distracted by the opinions of others.
- Anonymous

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Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.
- Gordon Dickson

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Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
- Robert Lynd

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The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
- Mahatma Gandhi

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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke

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If in the last few years you haven’t discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead.
- Frank Gelett

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Take it easy but take it.
- Woody Guthrie

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Can Love be controlled by advice?
- John Gay

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Whatever advice you give, be brief.
- Horace

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Many receive advice, few profit by it.
- Publilius Syrus

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Advice to persons about to marry Don’t!
- Henry Mayhew

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“Do-so” is more important than “say-so.”
- Pete Seeger

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If better were within, better would come out.
- Dr. Thomas Fuller

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Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace.
- Karl Barth

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Advice is like castor oil, easy to give, but dreadful to take.
- Josh Billings

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Go put your creed into the deed, Nor speak with double tongue.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Beware of over great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.
- Margaret Fuller

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To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery.
- John Collins

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To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.
- Wilson Mizner

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When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
- Saul Bellow

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A leader must have the courage to act against an expert’s advice.
- James Callaghan

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