Quotes
Quotes about Vice
Of every noble action the intent Is to give worth reward, vice punishment.
Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.
The worst men often give the best advice. Our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts.
A fop sometimes gives important advice. [Fr., Un fat quelquefois ouvre un avis important.]
Ah, gentle dames! it gars we greet, To think how mony consels sweet, How mony lengthened, sage advices, The husband frae the wife despises.
She had a good opinion of advice, Like all who give and eke receive it gratis, For which small thanks are still the market price, Even where the article at highest rate is.
'Twas good advice, and meant, "My son, be good."
I agree with every word you write, and I can prove this in no better way than by taking your advice from beginning to end.
Know when to speake; for many times it brings Danger to give the best advice to kings.
What advice you give, be short. [Lat., Quidquid praecipies esto brevis.]
We give advice, but we do not inspire conduct.
Hazard not your wealth on a poor man's advice. [Sp., No adventures mucho tu riqueza.]
Take the first advice of a woman and not the second. [Lat., Primo dede mulieris consilio, secundo noli.]
Those who give bad advice to the prudent, both lose their pains and are laughed to scorn. [Lat., Consilia qui dant prava cautis hominibus, Et perdunt operam et deridentur tupiter.]
Be niggards of advice on no pretense; For the worst avarice is that of sense.
Here comes a man of comfort, whose advice Hath often stilled my brawling discontent.
Advice is like snowâthe softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.
No one wants adviceâonly corroboration.
To offer a man unsolicited advice is to presume that he doesn't know what to do or that he can't do it on his own.
It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides.
A good scare is worth more than good advice.
Giving advice to a stupid man is like giving salt to a squirrel.
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
If advice will not improve him, neither will the rod.
