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

When your mother asks, 'Do you want a piece of advice?' 
it's a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or
no. You're going to get it anyway.
        - Erma Bombeck

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to 
set a bad example.
	- La Rochefoucauld

There are some men who turn a deaf ear to reason and good 
advice, and willfully go wrong for fear of being controlled.
	- Jean De La Bruyère, French Classical Writer

If I were asked to give what I consider the single most 
useful bit of advice for all humanity, it would be this: 
Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, 
hold your head high. Look it squarely in the eye, and say, "I 
will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.
	  - Ann Landers

Advice is like snow -- the softer it falls, the longer it dwells 
upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
        - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Found in a fortune cookie: "You are a poor, pathetic, gullible fool 
who seeks advice from bakery products."

A word to the wise ain't necessary. It's the stupid ones who need 
the advice.
	- Bill Cosby

Advice is probably the only free thing which people won't take.
        - Lothar Kaul

If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it,
it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's 
a miracle.
        - Jack Adams (1838-1918) US historian, author

Advice is like snow -- the softer it falls, the longer it dwells 
upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
        - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

You can tell more about a person by what he says
about others than you can by what others say about him.
        - Leo Aikman

Well done is better than well said.
        - Benjamin Franklin

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.
        - Jonathan Kozel

I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for 
the last judgment, it takes place every day.
        - Albert Camus
 
It is easy when we are in prosperity to give
advice to the afflicted.
        - Aeschylus

Advice is what we ask for when we already
know the answer but wish we didn't
        - Erica Jong

The counsels of old age give light without heat,
like the sun in winter.
        - Marquis de Vauvenargues

This is the gist of what I know: Give advice and buy a foe.
        - Phyllis McGinley

A good scare is worth more than good advice. 
	-Horace

It is better to give than receive...especially advice.  
	-Mark Twain

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