Advice Quotes

Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.

E.M. Forster

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

Charles Dickens

An apology given just to appease one's conscience is self-serving and better left unspoken!

Evinda Lepins

Come friends, it's not too late to seek a newer world.

Alfred Tennyson

Mark it, nuncle.Have more than thou showest,Speak less than thou knowest,Lend less than thou owest,Ride more than thou goest,Learn more than thou trowest,Set less than thou throwest,Leave thy drink and thy whoreAnd keep in-a-door,And thou shalt have moreThan two tens to a score.

William Shakespeare

if something does go wrong, here is my advice... KEEP CALM and CARRY ON.

Maira Kalman

Lots of men think that women should tell the truth, explain their feelings. These men should use their wishes more wisely. (Prepare To Die!, p.27)

Paul Tobin

You will find, that when you have someone to love, that the face is less important than the brain, and the body is less important than the heart.

Adrian Tan

Pack a pillow and blanket and see as much of the world as you can.You will not regret it.

Jhumpa Lahiri

At least three times every day take a moment and ask yourself what is really important. Have the wisdom and the courage to build your life around your answer.

Lee L. Jampolsky

I would rather be confused for 10 minutes than bored for 5 seconds.

Russell T Davies

Don't leave a piece of jewelry at his house so you can go back and get it later; he may be with his real girlfriend.

Amy Sedaris

Do notforget duty. But choose love when you can.

Cinda Williams Chima

I have changed my mind, and changed the trimmings of my cap this morning; they are now such as you suggested.

Jane Austen

No real lady would let a dress that might have been worn by a stranger touch her skin.

Cassandra Clare

But if you will not take this Counsel, and persist in thinking a Commerce with the Sex inevitable, then I repeat my former Advice, that in all your Amours you should prefer old Women to young ones. You call this a Paradox, and demand my Reasons. They are these:1. Because as they have more Knowledge of the World and their Minds are better stor'd with Observations, their Conversation is more improving and more lastingly agreable.2. Because when Women cease to be handsome, they study to be good. To maintain their Influence over Men, they supply the Diminution of Beauty by an Augmentation of Utility. They learn to do a 1000 Services small and great, and are the most tender and useful of all Friends when you are sick. Thus they continue amiable. And hence there is hardly such a thing to be found as an old Woman who is not a good Woman.3. Because there is no hazard of Children, which irregularly produc'd may be attended with much Inconvenience.4. Because thro' more Experience, they are more prudent and discreet in conducting an Intrigue to prevent Suspicion. The Commerce with them is therefore safer with regard to your Reputation. And with regard to theirs, if the Affair should happen to be known, considerate People might be rather inclin'd to excuse an old Woman who would kindly take care of a young Man, form his Manners by her good Counsels, and prevent his ruining his Health and Fortune among mercenary Prostitutes.5. Because in every Animal that walks upright, the Deficiency of the Fluids that fill the Muscles appears first in the highest Part: The Face first grows lank and wrinkled; then the Neck; then the Breast and Arms; the lower Parts continuing to the last as plump as ever: So that covering all above with a Basket, and regarding2 only what is below the Girdle, it is impossible of two Women to know an old from a young one. And as in the dark all Cats are grey, the Pleasure of corporal Enjoyment with an old Woman is at least equal, and frequently superior, every Knack being by Practice capable of Improvement.6.

Benjamin Franklin

The best way to predict your future is to create it

Abraham Lincoln

Be happy without picking flaws.

Victor Hugo

We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.

William R. Alger

Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.

Josh Billings