Famous Quotes & Sayings

Salman Rushdie

Good advice is rarer than rubies.

Kathleen Winsor

There's an old press-agents' slogan that's good advice: Don't read your publicity - weigh it.

Ramakrishna

Live like a mud-fish: its skin is bright and shiny even though it lives in mud.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Leslie Fiedler

Saul Bellow never took my advice when he was my friend.

Marcus Aurelius

Leave the wrong done by another where the wrong arose.

Thomas a Kempis

Trust not to your feelings for whatever they might be now, they will quickly be changed towards some other thing.

Samuel Johnson

Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.

Samuel Johnson

Few things are so liberally bestowed, or squandered with so little effect, as good advice.

Samuel Johnson

If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.

Samuel Johnson

The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.

Sam Altman

The role of the board is advice and consent. If the CEO does not lay out a clear strategy and tries to get the board to set one, it will usually end in disaster.

Rodney Atkins

If you're going through hell, Keep on going, don't slow down, If you're scared, don't show it You might get out Before the devil even knows you're there.

Sallust

Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.

Roy Haynes

What advice do I tell my grandson? I listen to him.

Susan Orlean

I am dismayed to realize that much of the advice I used to parcel out to aspiring writers has passed its sell-by date.

Thomas Carlyle

Be not a slave of words.

Thomas Carlyle

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

Tony Campolo

I am relatively sure, from conversations that I had with former president Bill Clinton, that George Bush seldom called upon him for advice.

Tom Waits

(When asked for advice for younger musicians) "Break windows, smoke cigars, and stay up late. Tell 'em to do that, they'll find a little pot of gold.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Never saw the branch you are sittin on, unless they are trying to hang you from it.

Simon Cowell

I got good advice once. Someone said to me: 'Live in your money rather than look at it.

Silvio Berlusconi

Berlusconi's advice to Italians trying to escape poverty: "Do it my way and earn more money".

Richard Branson

Don't hesitate to seek external help or advice where need be. Sometimes, it takes an external, emotionally unattached individual to detect your business flaws and render unbiased advice.

Swami Vivekananda

To cowards what advice shall I offer? - nothing whatsoever have I to say.

Rip Taylor

Carrot Top... I gave him advice once and he ran with it. He should thank me.

Vidal Sassoon

Take good advice, make sure it is good advice, then do it your way.

Robert Fulghum

Share everything. Don't take things that aren't yours. Put things back where you found them.

Robert Frost

Don't be an agnostic. Be something.

Thomas More

Food is an implement of magic, and only the most coldhearted rationalist could squeeze the juices of life out of it and make it bland. In a true sense, a cookbook is the best source of psychological advice and the kitchen the first choice of room for a therapy of the world.

Rumi

When you're traveling, ask the traveler for advice / not someone whose lameness keeps him in one place.

Suzanne Collins

Here's some advice. Stay alive.

Steven Weinberg

My advice is to go for the messes - that's where the action is.