Take Advice…

The brain may take advice, but not the heart

Wise men don’t need advice. Fools won’t take it. ~ Benjamin Franklin Quotes

What makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice. ~ William Faulkner

We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do. ~ Henry Wheeler Shaw

We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain. ~ Wolliam Alger

Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway. ~ Warren Buffett

There’s no advice like father’s — even if you don’t take it. ~ American Proverbs

There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad. ~ Edward Dahlberg

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. ~ Hannah Whitall Smith

The iron never takes advice from the hammer. ~ Congolese Proverbs

The brain may take advice, but not the heart. ~ Truman Capote

The best advice is this: Don’t take advice and don’t give advice. ~ Author Unknown

Take a woman’s first advice and not her second. ~ French Proverbs

It’s always good to be careful when you give advice, because someone might take it. ~ Croft Pentz

It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.  ~ J. C. Macaulay

It is a weak thing to tell half your story, and then ask your friend’s advice–a still weaker thing to take it. ~ Arthur Helps

In those days he was wiser than he is now — he used frequently to take my advice. ~ Winston Churchill Quotes

I’ll give you the same advice I give my children: Never take advice from anybody. ~ Robert Altman

If you listen too much to advice, you may wind up making other people’s mistakes. ~ Croft Pentz

I only do what my gut tells me to. I think it’s smart to listen to other people’s advice, but at the end of the day, you’re the only one who can tell you what’s right for you. ~ Jennifer Lopez Quotes

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. ~ Gene Fowler

He who follows his own advice must take the consequences. ~ Mexican Proverbs

He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it. ~ Karl Von Knebel

He is bad that will not take advice, but he is a thousand times worse that takes every advice. ~ Irish Proverbs

Good advice once was worth a camel; now that it is free of charge, no one takes it. ~ Lebanese Proverbs

Advice is like castor oil, easy to give, but dreadful to take. ~ Josh Billings

Advice is like bogus money, everybody wants to pass it on ye; nobody wants to take it. ~ Charles Clark Munn

A woman’s advice is of little value, but he who does not take it is a fool. ~ Spanish Proverbs

A wife’s advice is not worth much, but woe to the husband who refuses to take it. ~ Welsh Proverbs

When women are the advisers, the lords of creation don’t take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do. Then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it. If it fails, they generously give her the whole. ~ Louisa May Alcott

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