Pastoral Resources

Advice is such a tricky thing when you're young.

There are a lot of people who will come to me for advice or whatever.

Hazard not your wealth on a poor man's advice.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.

Advice to persons about to marry - don't.

There are a lot of personal things that take place when becoming governor and I am happy to work with him should he ask. I will give him the best advice I can give.

An extreme optimist is a man who believes that humanity will probably survive even if it doesn't take his advice.

I used to take five or six books away and bring five or six books back. Nobody gave me direction or advice and I read much in the way that a boy might watch television.

I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing over whether it is true or not.

An expert is somebody who is more than 50 miles from home, has no responsibility for implementing the advice he gives, and shows slides.

My advice to someone to follow in my footsteps is to have patience. I've been doing this for twelve years.

I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.

Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.

But the advice was not taken - Johnstone did emigrate to Canada, and did mortgage his pension; and I fear - though I failed to trace his after history - that he suffered in consequence.

If I had to give one piece of advice to incoming college freshmen, I'd say always be true to yourself.

To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.

Unfortunately, I was not wise enough to listen to her advice, and hastily married. In a few weeks, I had occasion to repent of the step I had taken, as the report proved true - a report which I thought justified, and indeed required, our separation.

I counseled many returning missionaries. I interviewed 1,700 missionaries all over the world. My advice to them is that you should study and prepare for your life's work in a field that you enjoy.

Ask a woman's advice, and whatever she advises, Do the very reverse and you're sure to be wise.

My Department has already recognised this and has been working specifically on the technical support issue since January and will offer advice to schools during the Autumn term.