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- It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is fatal.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him.
- John Billings(Henry Wheeler Shaw)
- Just a word of advice. Whenever you're furious with your parents or you think they're terrible, just remember, you vomited on them and they kept you.
- John Green, Vlogbrothers, The Five Worst Places to Vomit, 09-04-12
- I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
- Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong
- It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.
- Anne Tyler (1941 - ), Celestial Navigation, 1974
- 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, 1902
- Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.
- Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950), Letters
- The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
- Edwina Currie, in Observer, 1988
- I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
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