If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

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

Don’t run if you can walk. Don’t walk if you can stand. Don’t stand if you can sit. Don’t sit if you can lie down.

Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.

You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.

In business or in life, don’t follow the wagon tracks too closely.

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.

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

It’s my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.

Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that’s when something snaps up and bites you.

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

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

I give opinions, not advice.

Trust, but verify.

Be sincere; be brief; be seated.

Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

Jim Cramer is a very smart man. I watch his show. I just do not follow his advice.

You say that you are my judge; I do not know if you are; but take good heed not to judge me ill, because you would put yourself in great peril.

When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.

Players now have a groin injury for months and months, and I often think they don’t really give a toss whether they’re playing or not because they’re getting paid anyway.

Let no such man be trusted.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

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.

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

All of my friends who have younger siblings who are going to college or high school – my number one piece of advice is: You should learn how to program.

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

Gambling can turn into a dangerous two-way street when you least expect it. Weird things happen suddenly, and your life can go all to pieces.

If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married.

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.

I fell and broke my pelvic bone in three places. So, I’m still sort of an invalid now.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.

I have warned many times about the guaranteed dangers of betting with your heart instead of your head – big darkness, soon come – but every once in a while you get a fair chance to have it both ways, and the annual NCAA basketball Tournament is one of them.

Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.

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

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.

Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

Beware of geeks bearing formulas.

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.

A man can’t be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

It’s disgusting, but my father taught me when your mouth gets dry, just suck the sweat out of your own jersey. There’s no bravado to any of it; it’s just a disgusting little trick.

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.

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

No one wants advice – only corroboration.

I’m trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It’s so easy to get turned.

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

My neighbor has a circular driveway… he can’t get out.

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

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

Many people have been getting too casual about climbing Everest. I forecast a disaster many times.

Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.

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

An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.