Beware of geeks bearing formulas.

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don’t have that experience. My only experience is at losing them.

Counsel with your parents is a privilege at any age.

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it’s best to let him run.

When a pile of cups is tottering on the edge of the table and you warn that they will crash to the ground, in South Africa you are blamed when that happens.

If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn’t do anything to you, but since you aren’t wise, you need us who are old.

Older and wiser voices can help you find the right path, if you are only willing to listen.

Common sense is not so common.

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

Next time I see you, remind me not to talk to you.

I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I’ve learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

The advice I’ve been giving to people all my life – that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you; you can’t give up politics, it won’t give you up – was the advice I should have been taking myself.

When your mother asks, ‚Do you want a piece of advice?‘ it is a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway.

My advice is this. For Christ’s sake, don’t write a book that is suitable for a kid of 12 years old, because the kids who read who are 12 years old are reading books for adults. I read all of the James Bond books when I was about 11, which was approximately the right time to read James Bond books.

Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.

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

He that sows thorns should never go barefoot.

In a magazine, one can get – from cover to cover – 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

My son complains about headaches. I tell him all the time, when you get out of bed, it’s feet first!

When in doubt, don’t.

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.

My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the other was to be independent, and the law was something most unusual for those times because for most girls growing up in the ’40s, the most important degree was not your B.A. but your M.R.S.

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.

Whenever I counsel someone who feels called to be an evangelist, I always urge them to guard their time and not feel like they have to do everything.

No one wants advice – only corroboration.

To get a hold on boys you must be their friend.

I can analyze people’s intentions. Immediately. That’s just a warning. To everyone.

I don’t like to give advice. I like to give people information because everyone’s life is different, and everyone’s journey is different.

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, ‚always do what you are afraid to do.‘

I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

Listen to many, speak to a few.

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

I remember talking with Arcade Fire after their first record, when they were getting all kinds of offers from major labels, and I don’t think I gave them any advice. They survived that whole onslaught pretty well anyway without me.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

If you ever see The Rock working out in the gym, don’t think you can just go up and disturb his workout and expect him to take a picture. He’s there to work, so kindly just pass the silverback on by or he’ll rip your face off.

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

Every time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow.

A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.

Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

I learned a great many years ago that in a fight between husband and wife, a third party should never get between the woman’s skillet and the man’s ax-helve.

There’s very little advice in men’s magazines, because men don’t think there’s a lot they don’t know. Women do. Women want to learn. Men think, ‚I know what I’m doing, just show me somebody naked.‘

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.

There are people who want to make men’s lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.

It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend’s folly.

We can never learn too much of His will towards us, too much of His messages and His advice. The Bible is His word and its study gives at once the foundation for our faith and an inspiration to battle onward in the fight against the tempter.

The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.

I haven’t been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.

I haven’t gone out of my way to seek advice from people I don’t know.

All too often when liberals cite statistics, they forget the statisticians‘ warning that correlation is not causation.

We are the people our parents warned us about.

The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That’s the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

If I can give you one strong piece of advice, when you go away for that romantic weekend, whatever you do, do not accept or take the upgrade to the honeymoon suite.