Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elmore Leonard

I think the best advice I give is to try not to write. Try not to overwrite, try not to make it sound too good. Just use your own voice. Use your own style of putting it down.

Eden Phillpotts

The people sensible enough to give good advice are usually sensible enough to give none.

J. B. Priestley

Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.

Those with retiree health benefits should ask their former employer or union for advice.

We don't like to say the advertisers are wrong. But we think they're getting a lot of wrong advice.

Eric Williams

We don't anticipate any problems with having officials, ... We contacted the FHSAA, asking for advice on the issue. Mr. Baker has been working with Randy Merrill all along. We appreciate the steps the sports officials association has taken to work with us and comply with the state law.

William Shakespeare

We cannot fight for love as men may do; We should be woo'd, and were not made to woo

Mother Teresa

We cannot do great things on this Earth, only small things with great love.

We want to give people information, advice, but at this point I don't want to be alarmist about it either because there are worse things.

We weren't willing to make a guaranteed five-year offer, that was based on the advice of our doctors, ... Our offer was predicated on the health concern.

Through patience a ruler can be persuaded, and a gentle tongue can break a bone. Proverbs 25:15

Aeschylus

to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.

Abraham Lincoln

You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.

With recent reforms in U.S. bankruptcy law making it more difficult than ever to erase debt, it's important to protect yourself. If you face financial challenges, seek the advice of a lawyer or professional financial advisor to explore alternatives.

The one thing we always advise them is they've got to be good consumers.

We were operating in good faith, trying to make the right decisions, based on the facts at hand and the advice we were receiving from the experts.

Kirk Cameron

God's advice trumps Oprah's every time.

Kirk Cameron

God speaks with authority on every subject including marriage and His advice trumps Oprah's every time.

Matt Dillon

Actors don't generally go asking other actors for advice too much, but I'll take suggestions wherever I can.

Mary McCarthy

Be truthful... and pay attention. I would also recommend the avoidance of credit cards.

Mark Twain

Do your duty today and repent tomorrow.

Nicholas Sparks

Don't take my advice. Or anyone's advice. Trust yourself. For good or for bad, happy or unhappy, it's your life, and what you do with it has always been entirely up to you.

For the new year you have to be realistic.

Ichiro Suzuki

If I'm in a slump, I ask myself for advice.

Idries Shah

Advice is priceless: when it becomes interference it is preposterous.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Don't expect others to listen to your advice and ignore your example.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Read carefully anything that requires your signature. Remember the big print giveth and the small print taketh away.

Mary Wortley Montagu

Begin nothing without considering what the end may be.

Paul Samuelson

When the economy was going up, [Milton Friedman and I] both gave the same advice, and when the economy was going down, we gave the same advice. But in between he didn't change his advice at all.

Paul Haggis

You have to be careful of the advice you take.

Leonardo da Vinci

Here is a thing which the more it is needed the more it is rejected: and this is advice, which is unwillingly heeded by those who most need it, that is to say, by the ignorant.

Publilius Syrus

It is bad advice that cannot be changed.

Publilius Syrus

Many receive advice, few profit by it.