No enemy is worse than bad advice.                             —Sophocles

If you can distinguish between good advice and bad advice, then you don’t need advice.

—Van Roy’s Second Law

A word to the wise ain’t necessary — it’s the stupid ones who need the advice.

—Bill Cosby

The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.

—Hannah Whitall Smith

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

—Jimmy Buffet

I realize that advice is worth what it costs — that is, nothing.

—Douglas MacArthur

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

—Erica Jong

Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into, the mind.

—Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that’s no reason not to give it.

—Agatha Christie

Recently a young mother asked for advice. What, she wanted to know, was she to do with a seven-year-old who was obstreperous, outspoken, and inconveniently willful? “Keep her,” I replied.

—Anna Quindlen

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

—Erica Jong

Too bad that all the people who really know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair.

—George Burns

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

 —Harry Truman

“Do-so” is more important than “say-so.”                      —Pete Seeger