A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.

-Addison,Joseph
  In The Spectator, no.475, 4 Sep.

Listen kid, take myadviceönever hate a song that has sold half a million copies.

-Berlin, Irving originally Israel Baline
Comment to the young Cole Porter, attributed.

Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.

-Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of
  Letter to his son, 29  Jan.

In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.

-Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of
  Letter to  Arthur Charles Stanhope,12 Oct.

Thestrongest possiblepiece of advicethat Icouldgiveto any young woman is: Don't screwaround and don't smoke.

-Currie, Edwina
  In the Observer, 3  Apr.

A Protestant, if he wants aid or advice on any matter, can only go to his solicitor.

-Disraeli, Benjamin, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield
  Lothair, ch.27.

Un romancier, selon moi, n'a pas le droit de dire son avis sur les choses de ce monde. Il doit, dans sa vocation, imiter Dieu dans la sienne, c'est-a'  -dire faire et se taire. A novelist, in my opinion, does not have the right to give advice on the affairs of the world. He must, in his occupation, imitate God in His; that is to say, create and keep quiet.

-Flaubert, Gustave
  Letter to Mlle Bosquet.

In a world where for pedagogic and other purposes a very large number of economists is required, an arrangement which discourages many of them from

-Galbraith,John Kenneth

Some advice: do not paint too much after nature. Art is an abstraction; derive this abstraction from nature while dreaming before it, and think more ofthe creationwhich will result than of nature.

-Gauguin, Paul
  Letter to Emile Schuffenecker.

If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.

-Hellman, Lillian Florence
  In the NewYork Times, 21 Feb.

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

-Jong, Erica ne¤  e Mann
  How To SaveYour Own Life.

If you take the wrong course†the President bears the 462 burden of the responsibility quite rightly. The advisers may move onöto new advice.

-Kennedy,John F(itzgerald)
  Comment to White House Special Counsel Theodore C Sorensen, Dec, after the ill-fated Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba.

I was called by my sovereign and by the voice of the peopletoassist the State when othershad abdicated the service of it.That being so, no one can be surprisedthat I will go on no longer, since my advice is not taken. Being responsible, I will directöand will be responsible for nothing that I do not direct.

-Pitt,William, 1st Earl of Chatham known as  the Elder
  On informing Cabinet of his resignation, 3 Oct.

   Advice to persons about to marryödon't.

-Punch

I beg you listen to this adviceö When you get wine, be sure to drink it.

-T'ao Ch'ien
c.400  AD  Collected in Substance, Shadow and Spirit, translated byArthurWaley.

I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.

-Thoreau, Henry David
  Walden, or, Life in theWoods,'Economy'.

We have asked men for votes, they have given us advice. At present they are also giving us abuse.

-West, Dame Rebecca formerly  Cecily Isabel Fairfield
  'The SexWar: DisjointedThoughts on Men', in The Clarion, 18 Apr.

Myadvicetoyou isnottoinquire whyor whither, but just enjoy your ice-creamwhileit's onyour plate,öthat'smy philosophy.

-Wilder,Thornton Niven
  The Skin of OurTeeth, act1.