How Is It Possible To Expect Mankind To Take Advice When They Will Not So Much As Take Warning.
~ Jonathan Swift

If I Were Asked To Give What I Consider The Single Most Useful Bit Of Advice For All Humanity, It Would Be This Expect Trouble As An Inevitable Part Of Life, And When It Comes, Hold Your Head High. Look It Squarely In The Eye, And Say, I Will Be Bigger Than You. You Cannot Defeat Me.
~ Ann Landers

The Advice Of Friends Must Be Received With A Judicious Reserve; We Must Not Give Ourselves Up To It And Follow It Blindly, Whether Right Or Wrong.
~ Pierre Charron

The True Secret Of Giving Advice Is, After You Have Honestly Given It, To Be Perfectly Indifferent Whether It Is Taken Or Not, And Never Persist In Trying To Set People Right.
~ Hannah Whitall Smith, 1902

To Ask Advice Is In Nine Cases Out Of Ten To Tout For Flattery.
~ John Churton Collins

Good Advice Is Something A Man Gives When He Is Too Old To Set A Bad Example.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld

People Who Ask Our Advice Almost Never Take It. Yet We Should Never Refuse To Give It, Upon Request, For It Often Helps Us To See Our Own Way More Clearly.
~ Brendan Francis

I Have Lived Some Thirty-odd Years On This Planet, And I Have Yet To Hear The First Syllable Of Valuable Or Even Earnest Advice From My Seniors.
~ Henry David Thoreau

Ask Advice Only Of Your Equals.
~ Danish Prove

Whatever Advice You Give, Be Brief.
~ Horace

The Only Thing To Do With Good Advice Is Pass It On. It Is Never Any Use To Oneself.
~ Oscar Wilde

Please Give Me Some Good Advice In Your Next Letter. I Promise Not To Follow It.
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay, Letters, 1952