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Good council has no price.
Giuseppe Mazzini
We may give advice, but not the sense to use it.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel.
George Chapman
The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.
Walter Lippmann
It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
Saint Francis of Assisi
In those days he was wiser than he is now -- he used frequently to take my advice.
Sir Winston Churchill
Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren't so many of them left. Think it over... no more syphilis, no more clap, no more typhoid... antibiotics have taken half the tragedy out of medicine.
LouisFerdinand Celine
The moral authority of our most cherished institutions comes from their voluntary nature: the value of advice from a priest, a teacher or a loved one depends in large part on the fact that we are free to ignore it. But judges' pieces of 'advice' are court orders, enforceable ultimately by the raw physical power of imprisonment. It is precisely because of the awesomely enforceable nature of our powers that we must be so circumspect in exercising them. It is one thing for a co-worker, family member, doctor, or clergyman to confront someone about a perceived drug problem; it is quite another thing for a judge to compel drug treatment. Drug courts not only fail to recognize this important institutional distinction, but their very purpose is to obliterate it.
Judge Morris Hoffman
The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.
Hannah Whitall Smith
Until thy feet have trod the RoadAdvise not wayside folk,Nor till thy back has borne the LoadBreak in upon the broke.Chase not with undesired largesseOf sympathy the heartWhich, knowing her own bitterness,Presumes to dwell apart.Employ not that glad hand to raiseThe God-forgotten headTo Heaven and all the neighbours' gaze --Cover thy mouth instead.The quivering chin, the bitten lip,The cold and sweating brow,Later may yearn for fellowship --Not now, you ass, not now!Time, not thy ne'er so timely speech,Life, not thy views thereon,Shall furnish or deny to eachHis consolation.Or, if impelled to interfere,Exhort, uplift, advise,Lend not a base, betraying earTo all the victim's cries.Only the Lord can understand,When those first pangs begin,How much is reflex action andHow much is really sin.E'en from good words thyself refrain,And tremblingly admitThere is no anodyne for painExcept the shock of it.So, when thine own dark hour shall fall,Unchallenged canst thou say:I never worried you at all,For God's sake go away!
Rudyard Kipling, The Comforters
There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
Joseph Addison
Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by action. If this be true, not only do the doctrines of wisdom help us but the precepts also, which check and banish our emotions by a sort of official decree.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca th
Advice is judged by results, not by intention.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
Erica Jong
He that gives good advice builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example builds with both.
Francis Bacon
LORD GORING: My father told me to go to bed an hour ago. I don't see why I shouldn't give you the same advice. I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband, A
I realize that advice is worth what it costs--that is, nothing.
General Douglas MacArthur
Older and wiser voices can always help you find the right path, if you are only willing to listen.
Jimmy Buffett, A Pirate Looks At
