He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.
~ Francis Bacon

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.
~ Francis Bacon

The worst men often give the best advice.
~ Philip James Bailey

It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
~ Aeschylus

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.
~ Aesop

Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.
~ Tony Alesandra

We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.
~ William R. Alger

Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom s. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.
~ Nelson Algren

To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
~ Ghose Aurobindo

Most of us ask for advice when we know the answer but we want a different one.
~ Ivern Ball

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.
~ Walter Benjamin

A fool think he needs no advice, but a wise man listens to others.
~ Bible

Where no counsel is, the people fall; but in the multitude of counselors there is safety.
~ Bible

Consult. To seek another's approval of a course already decided on.
~ Ambrose Bierce

Advice is like castor oil, easy to give, but dreadful to take.
~ Josh Billings

Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.
~ Josh Billings

The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is.
~ Phillips Brooks

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

Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel.
~ George Chapman

Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.
~ Lord Chesterfield