Doris Lessing
(1919–2013) British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer and short story writer
“I do not trust any advice which is given in bad prose.”
—
Robertson Davies
,
book
A Voice from the Attic
A Voice from the Attic (1960)
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Source: 2009, The Best of Me (2011)
“Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.”
Aesop
(-620–-564 BC) ancient Greek storyteller
The Fox and the Goat.
“It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides.”
Jane Austen
book
Persuasion
Persuasion (1817)
Works, Persuasion
Prevale
(1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: (it) Non cancello nessun giorno della mia vita, i giorni belli mi hanno regalato felicità, quelli brutti mi hanno dato esperienza... i peggiori, mi hanno insegnato a non mollare mai.
Source: prevale.net
Paul Krugman
(1953) American economist
"The Beatings Must Continue" http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/30/the-beatings-must-continue-2/, 30 April 2013
The Conscience of a Liberal blog
“Shun advice
at any price -
that's what I call
good advice.”
Piet Hein
(1905–1996) Danish puzzle designer, mathematician, author, poet
Good Advice
Grooks
Lord Goring, Act I
Variant: The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
Source: An Ideal Husband (1895)
“Nothing is given so profusely as advice.”
On ne donne rien si libéralement que ses conseils.
Maxim 110.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)