Good advice
Is beyond all price. [ Proverb ]

Good counsel has no price. [ Mazzini ]

Advice whispered in the ear
Is not worth a tare. [ Proverb ]

The advice of a friend is good. [ Homer ]

Whatever advice you give, be short. [ Horace ]

He needs little advice that is lucky. [ Proverb ]

A fop sometimes gives important advice. [ Boileau ]

We ask advice, but we mean approbation. [ Colton ]

Necessity is the only successful adviser. [ Charles Reade ]

Agreeable advice is rarely useful advice. [ Massillon ]

The worst men often give the best advice. [ Bailey ]

Good advice may be given, but manners not. [ Turkish Proverb ]

When a thing is done advice comes too late. [ Proverb ]

Good counsels observed are chains to grace. [ Fuller ]

One can advise comfortably from a safe port. [ Schiller ]

Know when to speak, for many times it brings
Danger to give the best advice to kings. [ Herrick ]

Do not take a blind guide nor a bad adviser.

Bad advice is often most fatal to the adviser. [ Flaccus ]

We give advice, but we do not inspire conduct. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Hazard not your wealth on a poor man's advice. [ Manuel Conde Lucanor ]

It is not advice, but approval, which we crave. [ Boufflers ]

It is easy to give advice from a port of safety. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

Many receive advice, only the wise profit by it. [ Publius Syrus ]

Take the first advice of a woman, not the second. [ Proverb ]

Advice may be wrong, but examples prove themselves. [ Henry Wheeler Shaw (pen name Josh Billings) ]

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice. [ Rochefoucauld ]

Superfluous advice is not retained by the full mind. [ Horace ]

Begin nothing without considering what the end may be. [ Lady M. Montague ]

Good advice can be given, a good name cannot be given. [ Turk. Proverb ]

The Alphabet Of Success

Attend carefully to details.
Be prompt in all things.
Consider well, then decide positively.
Dare to do right, fear to do wrong.
Endure trials patiently.
Fight life's battles bravely.
Go not into the society of the vicious.
Hold your integrity sacred.
Injure not another's reputation.
Join hands only with the virtuous.
Keep your mind free from evil thoughts.
Lie not for any consideration.
Make few special acquaintances.
Never try to appear what you are not.
Observe good manners.
Pay your debts promptly.
Question not the verity of a friend.
Respect the desires of your parents.
Sacrifice money rather than principle.
Touch not, taste not, handle not intoxicating drinks.
Use your leisure for improvement.
Venture not upon the threshold of wrong.
Watch carefully over your passions.
Xtend to everyone a kindly greeting.
Yield not to discouragement.
Zealously labor for the right, and success is certain. [ Ladies Home Journal ]

We all, when we are well, give good advice to the sick. [ Terence ]

A simpleton often suggests a significant bit of advice. [ Boileau ]

We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain. [ W. R. Alger ]

Everybody gives advice: some listen to it; none apply it. [ Alfred Bougeart ]

He who was taught only by himself had a fool for a master. [ Ben Jonson ]

We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it. [ La Roche ]

When a wise man gives thee better counsel, give me mine again. [ Shakespeare ]

Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least. [ Johnson ]

Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient. [ Beecher ]

You may give him good advice, but who can give him wit to take it? [ Proverb ]

A man always ready to give his advice, and that the most judicious.

He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it. [ Karl Von Knebel ]

The greatest trust between man and man is the trust of giving counsel. [ Bacon ]

Advice is like kissing: it costs nothing and is a pleasant thing to do. [ H. W. Shaw ]

To attempt to advise conceited people is like whistling against the wind. [ Hood ]

I do not like giving advice: it is incurring an unnecessary responsibility. [ Beaconsfield ]

If I had given four-pence for that advice, I had bought it a groat too dear. [ Proverb ]

Advice is seldom welcome; those who want it the most always like it the least. [ Chesterfield ]

Take the advice of a faithful friend, and submit thy inventions to his censure. [ Thomas Fuller ]

If you would convince a person of his mistake, accost him not when he is ruffled. [ Dr. Watts ]

Most people who ask advice of others have already resolved to act as it pleases them. [ Knigge ]

Any one can give advice, such as it is, but only a wise man knows how to profit by it. [ Caleb C. Colton ]

Ten Things To Do.

Do good to all.
Speak evil of none.
Hear and know the facts before judging.
Think before speaking.
Hold an angry tongue.
Be kind to the distressed.
Ask pardon for all wrongs.
Be patient toward everybody.
Stop the ears to a tale-bearer.
Disbelieve most of the ill reports concerning friends, neighbors, and people in general.

Let no man presume to give advice to others, that has not first given counsel to himself. [ Seneca ]

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]

Advice about keeping secrets: it's a lot easier if you don't know them in the first place. [ Alan Turing ]

Before giving advice we must have secured its acceptance, or, rather, have made it desired. [ Amiel ]

If the advice of a fool for once happens to be good, it requires a wise man to carry it out. [ Lessing ]

Even the ablest pilots are willing to receive advice from passengers in tempestuous weather. [ Cicero ]

The advice that is wanted is commonly unwelcome; that which is not wanted is evidently impertinent. [ Johnson ]

The Golden Rule Of Three.

Three things to be - pure, just and honest.
Three things to govern - temper, tongue and conduct.
Three things to live - courage, affection and gentleness.
Three things to love - the wise, the virtuous and the innocent.
Three things to commend - thrift, industry and promptness.
Three things about which to think - life, death and eternity.
Three things to despise - cruelty, arrogance and ingratitude.
Three things to admire - dignity, gracefulness and intellectual power.
Three things to cherish - the true, the beautiful and the good.
Three things for which to wish - health, friends and contentment.
Three things for which to fight - honor, home and country.
Three things to attain - goodness of heart, integrity of purpose and cheerfulness of disposition.
Three things to give - alms to the needy, comfort to the sad and appreciation to the worthy.
Three things to desire - the blessing of God, an approving conscience and the fellowship of the good.
Three things for which to work - a trained mind, a skilled hand and a regulated heart.
Three things for which to hope - a haven of peace, a robe of righteousness and the crown of life. [ Beattie ]

No man has yet discovered the means of giving successfully friendly advice to women - not even to his own. [ Balzac ]

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

Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into, the mind. [ Coleridge ]

Nature, the handmaid of God Almighty, does nothing but with good advice, if we make research into the true reason of things. [ James Howell ]

Nothing is so beneficial to a young author as the advice of a man whose judgment stands constitutionally at the freezing-point. [ Douglas Jerrold ]

My advice is to consult the lives of other men as we would a looking-glass, and from thence fetch examples for our own imitation. [ Terence ]

The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy. [ Moliere ]

There are a sort of friends, who in your poverty do nothing but torment and taunt you with accounts of what you might have been had you followed their advice. [ Zimmerman ]

Nothing lives in literature but that which has in it the vitality of the creative art; and it would be safe advice to the young to read nothing but what is old. [ K P. Whipple ]

Vanity is so frequently the apparent motive of advice, that we, for the most part, summon our powers to oppose it without any very accurate inquiry whether it is right. [ Dr. Johnson ]

A journalist is a grumbler, a censurer, a giver of advice, a regent of sovereigns, a tutor of nations. Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets. [ Napoleon I ]

The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice. The rich are always advising the poor; but the poor seldom venture to return the compliment. [ Sir Arthur Helps ]

It is expedient to have an 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. [ Bishop Horne ]

There is nothing of which men are more liberal than their good advice, be their stock of it ever so small; because it seems to carry in it an intimation of their own influence, importance, or worth. [ Young ]

When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we should take it for our own, and make an immediate application of it, as we would of the advice of a friend whom we have purposely consulted. [ Colton ]

Avoid that which an enemy tells you to do; for if you follow his advice, you will smite your knees with the hand of sorrow. If he shows you a road straight as an arrow, turn from it and go the other way. [ Saadi ]

He who calls in the aid of an equal understanding doubles his own; and he who profits by a superior understanding raises his powers to a level with the height of the superior understanding he unites with. [ Burke ]

The advice of a scholar, whose piles of learning were set on fire by imagination, is never to be forgotten. Proportion an hour's reflection to an hour's reading, and so dispirit the book into the student.' [ Willmott ]

He that gives good advice builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example builds with the other; but he that gives good admonition and bad example builds with one hand and pulls down with the other. [ Bacon ]

No man is so foolish but he may give another good counsel sometimes, and no man so wise but he may easily err, if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that was taught only by himself had a fool for a master. [ Ben Jonson ]

Advice, as it always gives a temporary appearance of superiority, can never be very grateful, even when it is most necessary or most judicious; but, for the same reason, every one is eager to instruct his neighbors. [ Johnson ]

Give thy friend counsel wisely and charitably, but leave him to his liberty whether he will follow thee or no; and be not angry if thy counsel be rejected, for advice is no empire, and he is not my friend that will be my judge whether I will or no. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

A man takes contradiction and advice much more easily than people think, only he will not bear it when violently given, even though it be well founded. Hearts are flowers; they remain open to the softly falling dew, but shut up in the violent downpour of rain. [ Richter ]

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarcely in that; for it is true, we may give advice, but we cannot give conduct. Remember this; they that will not be counseled cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you over your knuckles. [ Benjamin Franklin ]

No one was ever the better for advice: in general, what we called giving advice was properly taking an occasion to show our own wisdom at another's expense; and to receive advice was little better than tamely to afford another the occasion of raising himself a character from our defects. [ Lord Shaftesbury ]

Each successive generation plunges into the abyss of passion, without the slightest regard to the fatal effects which such conduct has produced upon their predecessors; and lament, when too late, the rashness with which they slighted the advice of experience, and stifled the voice of reason. [ Steele ]

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer; for there is no such flatterer as a man's self, and there is no such remedy against flattery of a man's self as the liberty of a friend. [ Bacon ]

First, girls, don't smoke--that is, don't smoke to excess. I am seventy-three and a half years old, and have been smoking seventy-three of them. But I never smoke to excess - that is, I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time. Second, don't drink - that is, don't drink to excess. Third, don't marry - I mean, to excess. [ Mark Twain, "Advice To Girls", 1909 ]

An inoffensive pleasantness is a good quality to improve friendship. It enlivens conversation, relieves melancholy, and conveys advice with better success than naked reprehension. This gilding the pill reconciles the palate to the prescription, without weakening the force of the ingredients, and he who can cure by recreation, and make pleasure the vehicle of health, is a doctor in good earnest. [ R. Hall ]