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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.
No one wants advice -- only corroboration.
No one wants advice -- only corroboration.
Know when to speake; for many times it brings
Danger to give the best advice to kings.
Know when to speake; for many times it brings
Danger to give the best advice to kings.
Let no man value at a little price
A virtuous woman's counsel; her wing'd spirit
Is feather'd read more
Let no man value at a little price
A virtuous woman's counsel; her wing'd spirit
Is feather'd oftentimes with heavenly words.
It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides.
It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides.
And may you better reck the rede,
Than ever did th' adviser.
And may you better reck the rede,
Than ever did th' adviser.
Those who give bad advice to the prudent, both lose their pains
and are laughed to scorn.
[Lat., read more
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.]
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.]