When a wise man is advised of his errors he will reflect on and improve his conduct. When his misconduct is pointed out a foolish man will not only disregard the advice but rather repeat the same error.
If you really want to give me advice do it on a Saturday afternoon between one and four oclock when youve got 25 seconds to do it between plays. Dont give me advice on Monday. I know the right thing to do on Monday.
He that gives good advice builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.
The best advisers helpers and friends always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases but who give us out of themselves the ardent spirit and desire to act right and leave us then even through many blunders to find out what our own form of right action is.
Another piece of advice: when you read proof cross out as many adjectives and adverbs as you can. You have so many modifiers that the reader has trouble understanding and gets worn out. It is comprehensible when I write: The man sat on the grass becaus
Dont be proud of what you know and dont be self-confident if you are learned. Be open to advice from the unlearned as well as from the learned. Art knows no limit and the artists will never achieve perfection.
Good Advice If your best friends feeling tearful Try not to be too cheerful. Just let her fill your ear full Of sad tales by the score. And when she is through Shell feel as good as new. Now youll be feeling blue. But thats what friends are for!
Advice to those about to build a Water-garden – DONT. Not that the Water-garden is not a joy and a glory; but that it is cruelly hard to keep in order and control unless you are a master of millions and of broad ample acres of pool and pond. Water like fire is a good servant perhaps but is painfully liable to develop into a master.
Do not be inaccessible. None is so perfect that he does not need at times the advice of others. He is an incorrigible ass who will never listen to any one. Even the most surpassing intellect should find a place for friendly counsel. Sovereignty itself must learn to lean. There are some that are incorrigible simply because they are inaccessible: They fall to ruin because none dares to extricate them. The highest should have the door open for friendship; it may prove the gate of help. A friend must be free to advise and even to upbraid without feeling embarrassed.
It is expedient to have acquaintance with those who have looked into the world who know men understand business and can give you good intelligence and good advice when they are wanted.
No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
By all means marry; if you get a good wife you?ll become happy; if you get a bad one you?ll become a philosopher.
Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.
No one can give you better advice than yourself.
When a wise man is advised of his errors he will reflect on and improve his conduct. When his misconduct is pointed out a foolish man will not only disregard the advice but rather repeat the same error.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give to any young woman is: Dont screw around and dont smoke.
A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
Advice to persons about to marry – Dont!
Give every man thy ear but few thy voice; Take each mans censure but reserve thy judgment.
Too coy to flatter and too proud to serve Thine be the joyless dignity to starve. ADVICE.
Advice is seldom welcome; and those who need it the most always like it the least.
The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.
Many receive advice but the wise profit from it.
It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.
A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
Distrust interested advice.
If you really want to give me advice do it on a Saturday afternoon between one and four oclock when youve got 25 seconds to do it between plays. Dont give me advice on Monday. I know the right thing to do on Monday.
Dont give advice unless youre asked.
We give advice by the bucket but take it by the grain.
Never play cards with a man called Doc.
The surest way to lose a friend is to tell him something for his own good.
He that gives good advice builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.
The worst men often give the best advice.
Most of us ask for advice when we know the answer but we want a different one.
Good advice usually works best when preceded by a bad scare.
RASH adj. Insensible to the value of our advice.
Advice is like castor oil easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take.
The best advisers helpers and friends always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases but who give us out of themselves the ardent spirit and desire to act right and leave us then even through many blunders to find out what our own form of right action is.
Who cannot give good counsel? Tis cheap it costs them nothing.
Good but rarely comes from good advice.
Another piece of advice: when you read proof cross out as many adjectives and adverbs as you can. You have so many modifiers that the reader has trouble understanding and gets worn out. It is comprehensible when I write: The man sat on the grass becaus
Advice is seldom welcome and those who need it the most like it the least.
In those days he was wiser than he is now he used frequently to take my advice.
Advice is like snow; the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.
A word to the wise aint necessary its the stupid ones that need the advice.
T was good advice and meant my son Be good.
Dont be proud of what you know and dont be self-confident if you are learned. Be open to advice from the unlearned as well as from the learned. Art knows no limit and the artists will never achieve perfection.
Good Advice If your best friends feeling tearful Try not to be too cheerful. Just let her fill your ear full Of sad tales by the score. And when she is through Shell feel as good as new. Now youll be feeling blue. But thats what friends are for!
When Thales was asked what was difficult he said To know ones self. And what was easy To advise another.
Advice to those about to build a Water-garden – DONT. Not that the Water-garden is not a joy and a glory; but that it is cruelly hard to keep in order and control unless you are a master of millions and of broad ample acres of pool and pond. Water like fire is a good servant perhaps but is painfully liable to develop into a master.
Advice its more fun to give than to receive.
Ill customs and bad advice are seldom forgotten.
He who does not seek advice is a fool. His folly blinds him to Truth and makes him evil stubborn and a danger to his fellow man.
Do not be inaccessible. None is so perfect that he does not need at times the advice of others. He is an incorrigible ass who will never listen to any one. Even the most surpassing intellect should find a place for friendly counsel. Sovereignty itself must learn to lean. There are some that are incorrigible simply because they are inaccessible: They fall to ruin because none dares to extricate them. The highest should have the door open for friendship; it may prove the gate of help. A friend must be free to advise and even to upbraid without feeling embarrassed.
Dont ask the barber whether you need a haircut.
We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice.
Whatever advice you give be brief.
It is expedient to have acquaintance with those who have looked into the world who know men understand business and can give you good intelligence and good advice when they are wanted.
No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.