Some Good Quotes

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

— Aesop, The Fox and the Goat (~500 B.C.).

We may give advice, but we cannot give conduct.

— Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack (1758).

Quidquid præcipies esto brevis.

(Whatever advice you give, be short.)

— Horace, Ars Poetica (18 BC), CCCXXXV. Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 10-11.

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

—Erica Jong, How to Save Your Own Life (1977).

Play the opponent, not the cards.

— Pam Beesly

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

— Frank Lloyd Wright, in Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations, p. 19.

If a man love to give advice, it is a sure sign that he himself wanteth it.

— George Savile (1912)

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

― Kurt Vonnegut (1962)

I'm just as God made me, sir.

— Hotel Desk Clerk (This is Spinal Tap, 1984)

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I've been involved in a number of cults — both as a leader and a follower. You have more fun as a follower. But you make more money as a leader.

— Creed Bratton (The Office)

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"You are excrement. You can change yourself into gold."

— The Holy Mountain (1973)

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At all times keep your crap detector on. If I say something that helps, good. If what I say is of no help, let it go. Don’t start arguments. They are futile and take us away from our purpose.

— Richard Hugo, The Triggering Town (1979)