Advice Quotes

One might say, for example, that a patient has a kind of St Vitus's dance; a kind of dropsy; a kind of nerve fever; a kind of ague. One would never say, however (to end once and for all the confusion of these names) He has St. Vitus's dance, He has nerve fever, He has dropsy, He has ague, since there simply are not any fixed, unchanging diseases to be known by such names.

Samuel Hahnemann

So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

Immanuel Kant

Really, he thought, if you couldn't trust a poet to offer sensible advice, who could you trust?

Neil Gaiman

Number one: Don't frisk me. Don't hurt me physically. Don't get anywhere near my neck. And don't call me Regis. Advice to his guests

David Letterman

Better Counsel comes overnight.

Doris Lessing

Gore Vidal, for instance, once languidly told me that one should never miss a chance either to have sex or to appear on television. My efforts to live up to this maxim have mainly resulted in my passing many unglamorous hours on off-peak cable TV. It was actually Vidal's great foe William F. Buckley who launched my part-time television career, by inviting me on to when I was still quite young, and giving me one of the American Right's less towering intellects as my foil. The response to the show made my day, and then my week. Yet almost every time I go to a TV studio, I feel faintly guilty. This is pre-eminently the 'soft' world of dream and illusion and 'perception': it has only a surrogate relationship to the 'hard' world of printed words and written-down concepts to which I've tried to dedicate my life, and that surrogate relationship, while it, too, may be 'verbal,' consists of being glib rather than fluent, fast rather than quick, sharp rather than pointed. It means reveling in the fact that I have a meretricious, want-it-both-ways side. My only excuse is to say that at least I do not pretend that this is not so.

Christopher Hitchens

A mathematical formula for happiness:Reality divided by Expectations.There were two ways to be happy:improve your reality or lower your expectations.

Jodi Picoult

He who cures a disease may be the skillfullest, but he that prevents it is the safest physician.

Thomas Fuller

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

Publilius Syrus

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Publilius Syrus

Never give advice unless asked.

Proverb

To advise is not to compel.

Proverb

Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise.

David Seabury

The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.

Jean Paul Richter

Good advice is beyond all price.

Proverb

Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.

Proverb

Is not disease the rule of existence? There is not a lily pad floating on the river but has been riddled by insects. Almost every shrub and tree has its gall, oftentimes esteemed its chief ornament and hardly to be distinguished from the fruit. If misery loves company, misery has company enough. Now, at midsummer, find me a perfect leaf or fruit.

Henry David Thoreau

Most of us ask for advice when we know the answer but we want a different one.

Ivern Ball

Some of these people need ten years of therapy --ten sentences of mine do not equal ten years of therapy.

Jeff Zaslow

Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.

William Shakespeare