"The only good thing to do with good advice is pass it on; it is never of any use to oneself."
— Oscar Wilde

"Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish, and you're a consultant."
— Scott Adams

"Here's some simple advice: Always be yourself. Never take yourself too seriously. And beware of advice from experts, pigs, and members of Parliament."
— Kermit the Frog

"If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties."
— Francis Bacon

"How do I know what I think until I see what I say?"
— E.M. Forster

"If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself ~ all that runs over will be yours."
— Charles Caleb Colton

"Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open."
— Stephen King (On Writing)

"Always stick to your dreams."
— Ashley Tisdale

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

"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t."
— Erica Jong

"By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.

-this quote is actually found in Carl Sagan's book The Demon Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, where he attributes it to engineer James Oberg, who says he stole it from someone else."
— Richard Dawkins

"Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice and you will save his life."
— Confucius

"I always advise people never to give advice."
— P.G. Wodehouse

"If you're calling yourself "Emo", and you're cutting, talk to someone. Being "Emo" isn't about depression and suicide. It's a fashion statement and a genre of music. That's all."
— Reverend Opal your emo princess

"Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night."
— Philip K. Dick

"Self-consciousness kills communication."
— Rick Steves

"I'm in no position to hand down any advice," he said, "but there's a rule I follow when I don't know what to do."

"A rule?"

"If you have to choose between something that has form and something that doesn't, go for the one without form. That's my rule. Whenever I run into a wall I follow that rule, and it always works out. Even if it's hard going at the time."
— Haruki Murakami (Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: 24 Stories)

"The question is always the answer, provided you want the answer badly enough."
— Barbara Hambly (Time of the Dark)

"I give myself sometimes admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it."
— Mary Wortley Montagu

"
It don't do you no nevermind to tell nobody nothing."
— Thomas McGuane

"If you your lips would keep from slips, Five things observe with care; To whom you speak, of whom you speak, And how, and when, and where."
— William Edward Norris

"There are only two kinds of motorcycle riders: those who've wrecked and those who are going to."
— Bryon Burke

"Only boring people get bored."
— Ruth Burke

"Go wisely and slowly. Those who rush stumble and fall."
— William Shakespeare

"If you can read, you can go anywhere."
— Ruth Burke

"Formerly...when he tried to do anything for the good of everybody, for humanity...for the whole village, he had noticed that the thoughts of it were agreeable, but the activity itself was always unsatisfactory; there was no full assurance that the work was really necessary, and the activity itself, which at first seemed so great, ever lessened and lessened till it vanished. But now...when he began to confine himself more and more to living for himself, though he no longer felt any joy at the thought of his activity, he felt confident that his work was necessary, saw that it progressed far better than formerly, and that it was always growing more and more."
— Leo Tolstoy

"I realize that advice is worth what it costs--that is, nothing."
— Douglas MacArthur

"...well darling, keep busy, and take the advice of an old woman; find happiness inside of you, don't rely on others for happiness; its hard, but I found it to be rather true.""
— Alla Nazimova

"A verbal contract is worth about as much as the paper it's written on."
— Samuel Goldwyn

"If you enjoy sticking a straw in a dog's ear, don't sit next to the pooch with a milkshake."
— Alan Rogers (Lyam's Journal)

"If you can save yourself, you can save the world."
— Jocelyn Romero

"Don't hold a dagger in your heart."
— Chinese proverb

"If you are going to worry, don't do it. If you do it, don't worry."
— Michael Nolan

"The Director's Role: You are the obstetrician. You are not the parent of this child we call the play. You are present at its birth for clinical reasons, like a doctor or midwife. Your job most of the time is simply to do no harm.
When something does go wrong, however, your awareness that something is awry--and your clinical intervention to correct it--can determine whether the child will thrive or suffer, live or die."
— Frank Hauser (Notes on Directing)