The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

One of the advantages of being a captain is being able to ask for advice without necessarily having to take it.
William Shatner

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.
Samuel Smiles

To think well and to consent to obey someone giving good advice are the same thing.
Herodotus

Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The history of the last century shows, as we shall see later, that the advice given to governments by bankers, like the advice they gave to industrialists, was consistently good for bankers, but was often disastrous for governments, businessmen, and the people generally.
Carroll Quigley

Don't give your advice before you are called upon.
Desiderius Erasmus

Perhaps one of the only positive pieces of advice that I was ever given was that supplied by an old courtier who observed: Only two rules really count. Never miss an opportunity to relieve yourself; never miss a chance to sit down and rest your feet.
King Edward VIII

We've no use for intellectuals in this outfit. What we need is chimpanzees. Let me give you a word of advice: never say a word to us about being intelligent. We will think for you, my friend. Don't forget it.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.
Theodor Adorno

I'm certainly the last person to give advice on, well, anything.
George Clooney

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.
W. Somerset Maugham

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.
Thornton Wilder

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
Harper Lee

When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his good judgment, but his charming manners, that won her heart.
Helen Rowland

Sandler's always good. Tom Hanks gave me some good advice.
Jimmy Fallon