"If you're smart, you'll think twice, when they start to sound off with advice."
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"The walls have ears, ears that hear each little sound you make every time you stamp, throw a lamp."
"I do not like giving advice: it is incurring an unnecessary responsibility."
"Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her."
"Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee."
"Never trust advice from a man in the throes of his own difficulty."
"Give assistance, not advice, in a crisis."
"Distrust interested advice."
"You come to me for advice, but you can't cope with anything you don't recognize. Hmmm. So we'll have to tell you something you already know but make it sound like news, eh Well, business as usual , I suppose."
"They keep telling me don't save you. If I ignore all that advice and something isn't right then who will I complain to?"
"My advice to you is please don't ever sit in your room and lock yourself away because you don't think you're good enough."
"It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained."
"My first advice (on how not to grow old) would be to choose you ancestors carefully."
"We are all prone to the malady of the introvert who with the manifold spectacle of the world spread out before him, turns away and gazes only upon the emptiness within."
"As you become more proficient, fewer people can offer you advice, although in truth, that's when you need it the most because the stakes just keep getting higher and higher."
"If I would follow your advice and Jesus could perceive it, he, as a Jewish teacher, surely would not approve of such behavior."
"Don't give advice unless you're asked."
""Don't be stupid!" is excellent advice."
"He who calls in the aid of an equal understanding doubles his own; and he who profits by a superior understanding raises his powers to a level with the height of the superior standing he unites with."
"The pride of men will not often suffer reason to have scope until it can be no longer of service."