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If someone gives you so-called good advice, do the opposite; you can be sure it will be the right thing nine out of 10 times.

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

Here's good advice for practice: go into partnership with nature; she does more than half the work and asks none of the fee.

I have been trying to point out that in our lives chance may have an astonishing influence and, if I may offer advice to the young laboratory worker, it would be this - never to neglect an extraordinary appearance or happening.

All of our affairs, since the union of crowns, have been managed by the advice of English ministers, and the principal offices of the kingdom filled with such men, as the court of England knew would be subservient to their designs.

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

How true Daddy's words were when he said: all children must look after their own upbringing. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.

Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

You can keep it to yourself, but you could also call a support team like the team at MS LifeLines. They are there to support the MS community and give good advice.

I understand how hard it is to talk to people about MS. You don't want pity or random advice.

Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.

I once said the Queen of England could use some fashion advice.

A student will send me an urgent appeal to hear her, saying she is poor and wants my advice as to whether it is worth while to continue her studies. I invariably refuse such requests.

If the student could give up her work on my advice, she had better give it up without it. One does not study for a goal. The goal is a mere accident.

If you go to most third world countries, the older woman dispenses advice to the arguing couple while other members of the family, or even the village, sit around and listen. It is no big deal.

Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.

Nobody ever seems to want my advice about serious stuff. People will be like: 'Who made that sweater?' Or 'How did you get your hair so straight?' They don't to come to me for the relationship advice or deep stuff. In fact, my little sister actually hides from me.