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Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.
Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.
No one wants advice -- only corroboration.
No one wants advice -- only corroboration.
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.
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.]
A good scare is worth more than good advice.
A good scare is worth more than good advice.
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.
Ah, gentle dames! it gars we greet,
To think how mony consels sweet,
How mony lengthened, sage read more
Ah, gentle dames! it gars we greet,
To think how mony consels sweet,
How mony lengthened, sage advices,
The husband frae the wife despises.
If advice will not improve him, neither will the rod.
If advice will not improve him, neither will the rod.
We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.
We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.
