#advice

So my own suspicion is that the attorney has stopped this prosecution because part of her defence was to question legality and that would have brought his advice into the public domain again and there was something fishy about the way in which he said war was legal. ↗

— Clare Short

#advice #again #attorney #because #brought

It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously. ↗

— Logan P. Smith

#accept #advice #give #graciously #great

In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend. ↗

— Solon

#friend #giving #help #please #seek

When I seemed to be irritable or sad, my father would quote the learned Dr. Knight, and then say, 'Just go to sleep.' Like all smart aleck kids, I thought the advice was silly. But as I've grown older, I've realized just how smart Knight was. ↗

— Ben Stein

#dr #father #go #grown #how

We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#bucket #give #grain #take

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#advice #affair #dreary #dull #nothing

I used to take five or six books away and bring five or six books back. Nobody gave me direction or advice and I read much in the way that a boy might watch television. ↗

— John McGahern

#away #back #books #boy #bring

My advice to someone to follow in my footsteps is to have patience. I've been doing this for twelve years. ↗

— Christina Milian

#been #doing #follow #footsteps #i

My advice is very simple: if you can win a small battle, it gives you confidence in the political process to take on bigger battles, and so it is very much a bottom-up grass-roots way of doing politics. ↗

— David Miliband

#battle #battles #bigger #bottom-up #confidence

I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes. ↗

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

#am #attention #been #glad #good