“I sometimes give myself excellent advice. Occasionally, I even listen to it.”
Source: Ghost Story
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“I give myself sometimes admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.”
Mary Wortley Montagu (1689–1762) writer and poet from England
“I give myself very good advice, but I very seldom follow it.”
Lewis Carroll (1832–1898) English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer
Variant: She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).
Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
“I give you advice, which could I myself follow, I should be happy.”
Peter Abelard (1079–1142) French scholastic philosopher, theologian and preeminent logician
Letter I : Abelard To Philintus, as translated by John Hughes<!-- 1782 edition -->
Letters of Abelard and Heloise
Context: Sometimes I grieve for the house of the Paraclete, and wish to see it again. Ah, Philintus! does not the love of Heloise still burn in my heart? I have not yet triumphed over that happy passion. In the midst of my retirement I sigh, I weep, I pine, I speak the dear name of Heloise, pleased to hear the sound, I complain of the severity of Heaven. But, oh! let us not deceive ourselves: I have not made a right use of grace. I am thoroughly wretched. I have not yet torn from my heart deep roots which vice has planted in it. For if my conversion was sincere, how could I take a pleasure to relate my past follies? Could I not more easily comfort myself in my afflictions? Could I not turn to my advantage those words of God himself, If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if the world hate you, ye know that it hated me also? Come Philintus, let us make a strong effort, turn our misfortunes to our advantage, make them meritorious, or at least wipe out our offences; let us receive, without murmuring, what comes from the hand of God, and let us not oppose our will to his. Adieu. I give you advice, which could I myself follow, I should be happy.
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 <br class="br">The Conscience of a Liberal blog
“A fop sometimes gives important advice.”
Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1636–1711) French poet and critic
Un fat quelquefois ouvre un avis important.
Canto IV, l. 50
The Art of Poetry (1674)
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist
Source: The Dangerous Summer (1985), Ch. 1
“Sometimes it helps to scold yourself, to give yourself advice.”
R.L. Stine book The Haunted Mask II
Source: The Haunted Mask II
Frances Bean Cobain (1992) American artist
Attributed to a Teen Vogue interview <br class="br">" Frances Bean Cobain: 'I'm a Different Person' http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,1101912,00.html" (2005)