Advice Quotes

Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take.

He read his mind. He's a strange sort of man, isn't he? It's not just the advice and the wisdom that he has.

Good advice is one of those injuries which a good man ought, if possible, to forgive, but at all events to forget at once.

My advice to anyone adapting a novel is that once they've read it and learnt to understand it, then they must throw it away and never look at it again!

Never feel that a piece of criticism or advice is too much trouble to give, or that it exceeds your province.

Nobody ever seems to want my advice about serious stuff. People will be like: 'Who made that sweater?' Or 'How did you get your hair so straight?' They don't to come to me for the relationship advice or deep stuff. In fact, my little sister actually hides from me.

My clerkship with Justice Douglas was tremendously important. He told me, Christopher, get out into the stream of history and see what happens. I've tried to follow that advice.

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

If I'm in a slump, I ask myself for advice.

My advice to kids is give it your all! Give it 110% and don't give up!

As far as advice to potential teenage idols, there is no formula.

Once I was in a cafe in Portland and the woman at the next table and I began chatting and in the course of our conversation she strongly recommend I visit this web site called 'The Rumpus' so I could read this advice column called 'Dear Sugar.' It was so painful not to tell her that in fact I was Sugar, but I didn't.

A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.

When I seemed to be irritable or sad, my father would quote the learned Dr. Knight, and then say, 'Just go to sleep.' Like all smart aleck kids, I thought the advice was silly. But as I've grown older, I've realized just how smart Knight was.

Well, I don't give it out very often, but I reject the notion that you have to be a practitioner to give good advice.

My own perception of that is somewhat colored by where people ask my advice, which is still, of course, about changes to Python internals or at least standard libraries.

I'm gonna give them the advice that I always took myself, that it's better to get to know somebody before you jump into the sack with them. Because then if you jump into the sack and fall in love, and you liked them already, you're home free.

My job is to give the president and secretary of defense military advice before they know they need it.

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.

I would like a food/lifestyle show. We're not sure what that is yet. I want to be able to share what I do and how I raise my family. I feel like I have a story to tell. I enjoy talking and listening, sharing ideas and sharing advice.

One bit of advice someone gave me - which I haven't yet tried - is that if you go to an area where you might pick up a tummy bug, you should seek out the local probiotic yogurt. Eating it will introduce you to the local gut flora, apparently.

It is the part of a fool to give advice to others and not himself to be on his guard.

For you to ask advice on the rules of love is no better than to ask advice on the rules of madness.

Whatever is about you that is translated into your art, that's gonna keep you completly original and fresh and I just think that, that's just the best advice I can give, to an artist creatively.

The people sensible enough to give good advice are usually sensible enough to give none.

They're fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.

But I can only take so much TV, because there is so much advice. I find people will preach about virtually anything - your diet, how to live your life, how to improve your golf. The lot. I have always had a thing against the Mister Know-It-Alls.

Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.

The public relies on the advice of doctors and leading researchers. The public has a right to know about financial relationships between those doctors and the drug companies who make the pharmaceuticals prescribed by doctors.

The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.