Advice

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

François Duc de La Rochefoucauld

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(81 votes)   Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.

Richard Nixon

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(78 votes)   If one man says to thee, ''Thou art a donkey,'' pay no heed. If two speak thus, purchase a saddle.

The Talmud
BC 500?-400? AD, Jewish Archive of Oral Tradition

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(77 votes)   Give help rather than advice.

Marquis De Vauvenargues
1715-1747, French Moralist

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(77 votes)   Religion is in fact the exterior that continuously invades man’s self, always trying to minimize it, to incorporate it in its own self by sketching the most diverse images with purifying flow. Can you purify Destiny? Yes, because it is precisely the Destiny that accepts and incorporates purification.

Sorin Cerin
philosopher

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(77 votes)   You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.

W. Somerset Maugham

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(76 votes)   If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed.

Kate Halvereson

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(74 votes)   A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.

Edgar Watson Howe

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(74 votes)   I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me.

Hunter S. Thompson
1939-, American Journalist

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(73 votes)   Nevertheless we refer to death as we live our entire lives through it. What else could life be than our own reflection in what we are not, so in death?

Sorin Cerin
philosopher

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(73 votes)   The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others.

Anonymous

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(72 votes)   A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

Source Unknown

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(72 votes)   A word to the wise is infuriating.

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(72 votes)   I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
1689-1762, British Society Figure, Letter Writer

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(72 votes)   If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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