Pastoral Resources

In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.

Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least.

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

The most consistent gift and burden of motherhood is advice.

Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth.

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.

My clerkship with Justice Douglas was tremendously important. He told me, Christopher, get out into the stream of history and see what happens. I've tried to follow that advice.

The master class seldom lose a chance to insult a woman who has the ability for something besides service to his lordship.

In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.

If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

No one can give you better advice than yourself.

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

We cannot afford to have any large section of the business world in doubt whether they have broken the laws or not, and we cannot let the laws become a dead letter through vagueness. In this view it is clear that an administrative commission can render invaluable service.

John Kerry's service did not end in Vietnam. It began there.

Living in the fishbowl is hard enough without worrying about a Secret Service that can't keep mum.

The candidates we have in this campaign are... the most accomplished, in terms of public service, that we've had since 1960. One of them will be successful.

I'm certainly the last person to give advice on, well, anything.

The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.

The Coast Guard has long been known as the armed service that gets more done for less.