Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes

There is nothing men are so generous of as advice.

When a wise man gives thee better counsel, give me mine again.

I will not give you counsel, saying do this, or do that. For not in doing or contriving, nor in choosing between this course and another, can I avail; but only in knowing what was and is, and in part also what shall be.

We may give advice, but not the sense to use it.

A fool may sometimes give a wise man counsel

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

A prince who is not himself wise cannot be wisely advised. . . . Good advice depends on the shrewdness of the prince who seeks it, and not the shrewdness of the prince on good advice.

He that hath hornes in his bosom, let him not put them on his head.

The way of a fool seems right to him, but a wise man listens to advice.

Advice is cheap; you can take it from me.

By how much one man has more experience of things past, than another, by so much also he is more prudent, and his expectations the seldomer fail him.

Oh! the wisdom, the foresight and the hindsight and the rightsight and the leftsight, the northsight and the southsight, and the eastsight and the westsight that appeared in that august assembly.

Philosophy is good advice, and no one gives good advice at the top of his lungs.

Wise is what you want to be. Smart is easy compared to wise.

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

One wise man's verdict outweighs all the fools'.

A wise man heedeth all things, and in his own eyes is a fool.

Thrée maie a kepe counsayle, if two be away.

It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.

During times like these, the wise are influential.

Old people are fond of giving good advice; it consoles them for no longer being capable of setting a bad example.

You can't be wise without being intelligent, but you certainly can be intelligent without being wise.

We are never so generous as when giving advice.