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

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There is nothing men are so generous of as advice.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

I don't think a reporter should give advice or make predictions.
Peter Jennings

Never Have Your Dog Stuffed is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.
Alan Alda

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

Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least.
Lord Chesterfield

I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.
Lord Chesterfield

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.
Lord Chesterfield

In those days he was wiser than he is now - he used frequently to take my advice.
Lord Chesterfield

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

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

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