Advice Quotes — Page 39

RV

Author

“That's because Tod never brings anything but death and bad advice," I snapped. "That's not true." Tod tried to grin, "Sometimes I bring pizza.”

Sometimes Advice Bad Advice

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Vidal Sassoon

Hairdresser

“It's hard to give advice. There are so many people, how do you give major advice to a group of people, it's very presumptuous.”

People Giving Advice

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

“Never try to make anyone like you: you know, and God knows, that one of you is enough.”

Trying Advice

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VD

Vincent de Paul

Saint, Priest

“Is it not better to fail after asking advice than to risk acting on our own?”

Wisdom Risk

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

“Although this garrulity of advising is born with us, I confess that life is rather a subject of wonder, than of didactics. So muchfate, so much irresistible dictation from temperament and unknown inspiration enter into it, that we doubt we can say anything out of our own experience whereby to help each other.”

Inspiration Doubt Advice

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VD

Vincent de Paul

Saint, Priest

“Far from being a bad thing to seek advice, you must, on the contrary, do so when the matter is of any importance, or when we cannot come to a clear decision on our own.”

Wisdom Decision Advice

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Vincent de Paul

Saint, Priest

“If the Company takes my advice, it will always be preserved through this maxim, for if we are good, we will not lack any, and if we are not, we already have too many houses anyway, and can hardly fill the few we have.”

House Wisdom Advice

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TW

Tennessee Williams

Playwright

“Val: Why do you go out there? Sandra: Because dead people give such good advice. Val: What advice do they give? Sandra: Just one word- live!”

People Giving Advice

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Samuel Johnson

Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic

“There are few so free from vanity as not to dictate to those who will hear their instructions with a visible sense of their own beneficence.”

Advice Vanity Instruction

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Samuel Johnson

Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic

“Censure is willingly indulged, because it always implies some superiority: men please themselves with imagining that they have made a deeper search, or wider survey than others, and detected faults and follies which escape vulgar observation.”

Men Advice Faults

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Samuel Johnson

Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic

“Learn the leading precognita of all things-no need to turn over leaf by leaf, but grasp the trunk hard and you will shake all the branches. Advice cherished by Samuel Johnson that that, if one is to master any subject, one must first discover its general principles.”

Principles Knowledge Advice

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Samuel Johnson

Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic

“The desire of advising has a very extensive prevalence; and, since advice cannot be given but to those that will hear it, a patient listener is necessary to the accommodation of all those who desire to be confirmed in the opinion of their own wisdom: a patient listener, however, is not always to be had; the present age, whatever age is present, is so vitiated and disordered, that young people are readier to talk than to attend, and good counsel is only thrown away upon those who are full of their own perfections.”

People Advice Perfection

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