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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.
Listen to advice and accept correction, then in the end you will be wise.
Listen to advice and accept correction, then in the end you will be wise.
If you have a lot of tension and you get a headache, do what it says on the aspirin bottle: read more
If you have a lot of tension and you get a headache, do what it says on the aspirin bottle: "Take two aspirin" and "Keep away from children".
 Hazard not your wealth on a poor man's advice.
 [Sp., No adventures mucho tu riqueza.]  
 Hazard not your wealth on a poor man's advice.
 [Sp., No adventures mucho tu riqueza.] 
 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.] 
There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.
There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.
If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a read more
If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle.
 Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of 
counsellers there is safety.  
 Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of 
counsellers there is safety. 
The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is read more
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.