#advice

The most consistent gift and burden of motherhood is advice. ↗

— Susan Chira

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She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it). ↗

— Lewis Carroll

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Gore Vidal, for instance, once languidly told me that one should never miss a chance either to have sex or to appear on television. My efforts to live up to this maxim have mainly resulted in my passing many unglamorous hours on off-peak cable TV. It was actually Vidal's great foe William F. Buckley who launched my part-time television career, by inviting me on to Firing Line when I was still quite young, and giving me one of the American Right's less towering intellects as my foil. The response to the show made my day, and then my week. Yet almost every time I go to a TV studio, I feel faintly guilty. This is pre-eminently the 'soft' world of dream and illusion and 'perception': it has only a surrogate relationship to the 'hard' world of printed words and written-down concepts to which I've tried to dedicate my life, and that surrogate relationship, while it, too, may be 'verbal,' consists of being glib rather than fluent, fast rather than quick, sharp rather than pointed. It means reveling in the fact that I have a meretricious, want-it-both-ways side. My only excuse is to say that at least I do not pretend that this is not so. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

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The best advice is to take it easy, respect speed limits and do not try to make up time lost in the tailbacks on the open road. ↗

— Emma Caulfield

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We've no use for intellectuals in this outfit. What we need is chimpanzees. Let me give you a word of advice: never say a word to us about being intelligent. We will think for you, my friend. Don't forget it. ↗

— Louis-Ferdinand Celine

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If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire. ↗

— Winston Churchill

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Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery. ↗

— John Churton Collins

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My advice to the tea party freshmen: Slow the galloping horses to a trot. Big government was built over decades; it can't be dismantled in a year, especially when Democrats control the White House. ↗

— Ari Fleischer

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Children don't need much advice but they really do need to be listened to and not just with half an ear. ↗

— Emma Thompson

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