A good scare is worth more than good advice.

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

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

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

Here comes a man of comfort, whose advice
Hath often stilled my brawling discontent.

Here comes a man of comfort, whose advice
Hath often stilled my brawling discontent.

To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability

To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability

They say that the best counsel is that of woman.
[Sp., Dicen, que el primer consejo
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They say that the best counsel is that of woman.
[Sp., Dicen, que el primer consejo
Ha de ser de la muger.]

Those who give bad advice to the prudent, both lose their pains
and are laughed to scorn.
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Those who give bad advice to the prudent, both lose their pains
and are laughed to scorn.
[Lat., Consilia qui dant prava cautis hominibus,
Et perdunt operam et deridentur tupiter.]

He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.

He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.

Giving advice to a stupid man is like giving salt to a squirrel.

Giving advice to a stupid man is like giving salt to a squirrel.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.
[Ger., Vom sichern Port lasst sich's gemachlich rathen.]

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.
[Ger., Vom sichern Port lasst sich's gemachlich rathen.]