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It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
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Aeschylus(525-456 BC, Greek dramatist) |
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| Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.
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Aesop(620-560 BC, Greek fabulist) |
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| Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.
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Tony Alesandra(American businessman, author, speaker) |
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| We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.
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William R. Alger(1822-1905, American writer) |
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| Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Moms. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.
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Nelson Algren(1909-1981, American author) |
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| All the advice in the world will never help you until you help yourself.
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Fred Van Amburgh |
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| To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
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Ghose Aurobindo(1872-1950, Philosopher) |
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| 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.
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Francis Bacon(1561-1626, British philosopher, essayist, statesman) |
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| 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 is a man's self.
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Francis Bacon(1561-1626, British philosopher, essayist, statesman) |
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| The worst men often give the best advice.
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Philip James Bailey(1816-1902, British poet) |
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| Most of us ask for advice when we know the answer but we want a different one.
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Ivern Ball |
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| Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else.
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Ivern Ball |
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| A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track an inch between wreck and smooth, rolling prosperity.
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Henry Ward Beecher(1813-1887, American preacher, orator, writer) |
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| Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.
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Walter Benjamin(1982-1940, German critic, philosopher) |
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| Consult. To seek another's approval of a course already decided on.
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Ambrose Bierce(1842-1914, American author, editor, journalist, The Devil's Dictionary) |
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| Advice is like castor oil, easy to give, but dreadful to take.
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Josh Billings(1815-1885, American humorist, lecturer) |
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| Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.
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Josh Billings(1815-1885, American humorist, lecturer) |
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| 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.
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Phillips Brooks(1835-1893, American minister, poet) |
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| We ask advice but we mean approbation.
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Charles Caleb Colton(1780-1832, British sportsman writer) |
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| Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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Thomas Carlyle(1795-1881, Scottish philosopher, author) |
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| Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel.
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George Chapman(1557-1634, British dramatist, translator, poet) |
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| Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.
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Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield(1694-1773, British statesman, author) |
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| In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.
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Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield(1694-1773, British statesman, author) |
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| I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
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Gilbert K. Chesterton(1874-1936, British author) |
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| In those days he was wiser than he is now -- he used frequently to take my advice.
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Winston Churchill(1874-1965, British statesman, Prime Minister) |
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| Advice is like snow; the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge(1772-1834, British poet, critic, philosopher) |
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| Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favor.
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John Churton Collins |
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| To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.
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John Churton Collins |
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| A word to the wise isn't necessary, it is the stupid ones who need all the advice.
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Bill Cosby(1937-, American actor, comedian, producer) |
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| There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
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Edward Dahlberg(1900-1977, American author, critic) |
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| I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.
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Gene Fowler(1890-1960, American journalist, biographer) |
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| They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles.
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Benjamin Franklin(1706-1790, American scientist, publisher, diplomat) |
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| Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
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Benjamin Franklin(1706-1790, American scientist, publisher, diplomat) |
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| When in doubt, don't.
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Saul W. Gellerman(American academic) |
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| When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.
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Kahlil Gibran(1883-1931, Lebanese poet, novelist) |
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| Have a good day, count your blessings, and pass this along to remind everyone else how blessed we all are.
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Racheal Gordon |
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| When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
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Marquis de la Grange |
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| Generally speaking, when a woman offers unsolicited advice or tries to help a man, she has no idea of how critical and unloving she may sound to him.
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John Gray(American relationship expert, author) |
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| To offer a man unsolicited advice is to presume that he doesn't know what to do or that he can't do it on his own.
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John Gray(American relationship expert, author) |
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| Always be nice to bankers. Always be nice to pension fund managers. Always be nice to the media. In that order.
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Lord Hanson(British executive) |
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| The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment.
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Sir Arthur Helps(1813-1875, British historian, novelist, essayist) |
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| We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice.
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Jack Herbert |
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| The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes(1809-1894, American author, wit, poet) |
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| A good scare is worth more than good advice.
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Horace(BC 65-8, Italian poet) |
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| Whatever advice you give, be short.
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Horace(BC 65-8, Italian poet) |
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| 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.
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Ben Johnson(1572-1637, British clergyman, poet, painter) |
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| Sometimes there is equal or more ability in knowing how to use good advice than there is in giving it.
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Francois De La Rochefoucauld(1613-1680, French classical writer) |
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| Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance.
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I Ching(12th century BC, Chinese book of changes) |
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| The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.
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Samuel Johnson(1709-1784, British author) |
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| Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
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Erica Jong(1942-, American author) |
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