George Washington Quotes

Don't give your advice before you are called upon.

Answer not a fool according to his folly,lest thou also be like unto him.

It is given to few persons to keep this secret well. Those who lay down rules too often break them, and the safest we are able to give is to listen much, to speak little, and to say nothing that that will ever give ground or regret.

It gets really tricky giving advice. The older I get, the less advice I give.

Never give advice in a crowd.

The people sensible enough to give good advice are usually sensible enough to give none.

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

There is a time to provide advice and offer an opinion, and there is a time not to. Don't be too quick to offer unsolicited advice. It certainly will not endear you to people.

An elder statesman is somebody old enough to know his own mind and keep quiet about it.

I would never give advice, because I would feel very presumptuous.

I think the simplest advice I could give would be to wait until asked before giving advice.

Fools give you reasons, wise men never try.

I’ll look to like, if looking liking move; But no more deep will I endart mine eye than your consent gives strength to make it fly.

It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.

Give thy thoughts no tongue, nor any unproportioned thought his act. Be thou familiar but by no means vulgar.

While thou livest keep a good tongue in thy head.

I still love listening to people's problems. I'm still good at giving people unsolicited advice.

There is no goodness in people who don't give advice, and there is no goodness in people who don't like to be advised

Old men delight in giving good advice as a consolation for the fact that they can no longer set bad examples.

Advice is very easy to give, and even easier not to follow, so I don't fool with it.

We give nothing so freely as advice.

I have often heard, that it is safer to hear and to take counsel, than to give it.

That's because I've learned how to use it [smile], Woserit said. I don't pass it out like an old woman giving free milk to the village cats. It's something that must be controlled, and for you especially. You use it on anyone. You must learn to be more judicious.

We are never so generous as when giving advice.