Erica Long:
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu:
I give my self sometimes admirable advice but I am incapable of taking it.

Marie Dressler:
No vice is so bad as advice.

Ayn Rand:
It is not advisable, James, to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener.

Carolyn Wells:
Advice…is a habit-forming drug. You give a dear friend a bit of advice today, and next week you find yourself advising two or three friends, and the week after, a dozen, and the week following, crowds!

Anne Tyler:
It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering advice.

Rosamond Marshall:
A woman in love never takes advice.

Flannery O'Conner:
I am very handy with my advice and then when anybody appears to be following it, I get frantic.

Selma Lagerlof:
Strange, when you ask anyone's advice you see yourself what is right.

Jane Frame:
"For your own good" is a persuasive argument that will eventually make man agree to his own destruction.

Edwina Currie:
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give to any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.

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