Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Green

At some point, I realized I was Kaitlyning the encounter, so I decided to text Kaitlyn and ask for some advice.

Mary Wortley Montagu

Begin nothing without considering what the end may be.

Paul Samuelson

When the economy was going up, [Milton Friedman and I] both gave the same advice, and when the economy was going down, we gave the same advice. But in between he didn't change his advice at all.

Michel de Montaigne

The secret counsels of princes are a troublesome burden to such as have only to execute them.

Mark Twain

When you catch an adjective, kill it - perhaps the best possible advice for budding writers.

George C. Marshall

I said bluntly that if the president were to follow Mr. Clifford's advice and if in the elections I were to vote, I would vote against the president.

Fran Lebowitz

There's no such thing as advice to the lovelorn. If they took advice, they wouldn't be lovelorn.

Natasha Richardson

I need advice and opinion-honest opinion. I want to get better. Why go around with blinkers on?

Joseph Addison

There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.

Jose Bergamin

A piece of advice always contains an implicit threat, just as a threat always contains an implicit piece of advice.

Kevin Bacon

Any idiot can get laid when they're famous. That's easy. It's getting laid when you're not famous that takes some talent.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

But one must know where one stands, and where the others wish to go.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability.

Harry S Truman

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

George Washington Carver

If you love it enough, anything will talk with you.

Oscar Wilde

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.

Muhammad Ali

Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

Epicurus

Live your life without attracting attention.

Epictetus

It is better to advise than upbraid, for the one corrects the erring; the other only convicts them.

Henry Ward Beecher

Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.

Jonathan Swift

How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.

Napoleon Hill

Find out what you really love to do, and then find a way to make a good living doing it.

Norman Ralph Augustine

If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice.

Mason Cooley

The price of telling your troubles is having to listen to advice.

Mason Cooley

Good places for aphorisms: in fortune cookies, on bumper stickers, and on banners flying over the Palace of Free Advice.

Mason Cooley

Good advice is never as helpful as an interest-free loan.

Mason Cooley

Of course I want to be good, but that may not be to your advantage.

Mason Cooley

To make advice agreeable, try paradox or rhyme.

Mason Cooley

Advice is more agreeable in the mouth than in the ear.

Michael Jordan

My advice is find fuel in failure. Sometimes failure gets you closer to where you want to be.

Marie Dressler

No vice is so bad as advice.

Theodore Roosevelt

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Joe Rogan

I read the things that scientists have figured out, and apply what they say is beneficial, but at the end of the day I'm the wrong person to get unchallenged nutritional advice from.