Plautus Quotes

We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice.

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

My dad is a very good sounding board. He's very, very smart. Both of my parents are very, very sharp, much smarter than I, I'm happy to acknowledge.

Take ye counsel together in all matters, inasmuch as consultation is the lamp of guidance which leadeth the way, and is the bestower of understanding.

I've had lots of good advice.

Being with someone who is smart and gives good advice adds tremendously wonderful elements to your life.

It's always fun when people ask you for advice.

There's a woman I see who's not my therapist, but she's like an old friend who's a therapist in profession. She lets me talk to her like a therapist once in a while, and she does a great thing. Whenever I have a big dilemma, like this is a big problem in my life, she always says, 'Wow, you're going to have to figure that out.'

Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.

He knew I enjoyed the relationships of college basketball. All along, he was the wise one.

Whenever I go out, so many people who respect me ask me what to do in a certain situation. A lot of times, I didn't know the answers because sometimes I was going through the same sort of thing. But then later on, I would think of things that people told me.

If anybody seeks your advice, offer right and sincere advice.

Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.

Wiley has given me wise words a few times.

My father is good with advice, as you might guess. But he keeps it short, and the takeaway is usually the same: to help us find our own way and our own gifts.

A mentor, a 'teacher,' is like an editor. I absolutely value my editor, who is my teacher.

We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance.

If I'm going for advice for anything in my life, I go straight to my father because he has the answers.

Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.

David Jacobs is a great influence on my life, has taught me so much about so many things.

To advise is not to compel.

It is said that the night brings counsel, but it is not said that the counsel is necessarily good.

Intelligence alone does not get us where we need to go or even necessarily where we want to go. For that, the human creature must exercise harder-won capacities of wisdom, and wise action.

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Common sense is calculation applied to life.