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  • No enemy is worse than bad advice. -- Sophocles
  • There is nothing more hateful than bad advice. -- Sophocles
  • It's hard to make out the difference between insults and bad advice. -- Cass McCombs
  • I do not live on false promises. I cannot afford to live on bad advice. -- Robert Kiyosaki
  • Seeking an acquisition from the start is more than just bad advice for an entrepreneur. For the entrepreneur it leads to short term tactical decisions rather than company-building decisions and in my view often reduces the probability of success. -- Vinod Khosla
  • It is bad advice that cannot be changed. -- Publilius Syrus
  • Ill customs and bad advice are seldom forgotten. -- Benjamin Franklin
  • . . . if you can tell the difference between good advice and bad advice, you don't need advice. -- Laurence J. Peter
  • Sometimes economists in official positions give bad advice; sometimes they give very, very bad advice; and sometimes they work at the OECD. -- Paul Krugman
  • The connoisseur of painting gives only bad advice to the painter. For that reason I have given up trying to judge myself. -- Pablo Picasso
  • A man who works evil against another works it really against himself, and bad advice is worst for the one who devised it -- Hesiod
  • That's because Tod never brings anything but death and bad advice," I snapped. "That's not true." Tod tried to grin, "Sometimes I bring pizza. -- Rachel Vincent
  • For all its accolades and celebrated recognition as sound guidance, I have personally noticed that sometimes, 'follow your heart,' is really bad advice. -- Steve Maraboli
  • It seems that bad advice that's fun will always be better known than than good advice that's dull-no matter how useless that fun advice is. -- Scott Berkun
  • But I don't think people take bad advice. They've got intuition too, you know. In fact I'd be surprised if they take any advice at all. -- Anne Tyler
  • There's a saying - "Write what you know." It's bad advice if you take it as an unbreakable rule, but good advice if you use it as a foundation. -- Stephen King
  • An actor knows two important things - to be honest in what he is doing and to be in touch with the audience. That's not bad advice for a politician either. -- Ronald Reagan
  • It's just that it's mind-boggling to me how many people I encounter every day who are struggling to subsist on a diet of bad advice about fake solutions to nonexistent problems. -- Merlin Mann
  • Old men are always advising young men to save money. That is bad advice. Don't save every nickel. Invest in yourself. I never saved a dollar until I was forty years old. -- Henry Ford
  • Good bye" is a good gift when you wave it at me because I refuse to follow a bad advice you gave. Wave it at me and I will show you the door. -- Israelmore Ayivor
  • There are as many forms of advice as there are colors of the rainbow. Remember that good advice can come from bad people and bad advice from good people. The important thing about advice is that it is simply that. Advice. -- Al Franken
  • No vice is so bad as advice. -- Marie Dressler
  • Anyone who reads advice books about romance has one problem to begin with: bad taste in literature. -- Roger Ebert
  • Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
  • Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
  • Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
  • There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad. -- John Burroughs
  • The Muslim leaders swallow the advice of the Western powers and bodies like the IMF and World Bank, even when it is bad for their countries and they know this. -- Abu Bakar Bashir
  • There are plenty of things you can do to help animals! The best advice that I can give right off the bat is not to get overwhelmed and feel bad when you read about all the issues. -- Jenna Morasca
  • When I was in my early 20s, I had my hair permed. Bad idea! It turned into total frizz. My advice to women is, if you have nice hair already, don't get a perm, leave your hair alone! -- Mariska Hargitay
  • There's never a bad time to put earplugs in. They're the kind of thing you can reject as a bit lame, but somebody told me to do start wearing earplugs and it turned out to be great advice. -- Ned Beauman
  • My main piece of advice would be don't worry about being published - just write a really good book, but also don't be afraid to write a bad book. Give yourself permission to fail, and don't be afraid. -- David Levithan
  • He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other. -- Francis Bacon
  • The idea of 'advice,' in terms of telling people advice or asking people for advice, has become not comprehensible to me, to a certain degree, due to feeling, like, for something to be accurately defined as 'good' or 'bad,' I would want to know the context, goal, perspective for it. -- Tao Lin
  • In real life, I have mostly gone for nice guys. I definitely had a phase where I was like, "Oh, the bad guy is really cool." It's fun to be bad for a while, and then that ended really terribly - one piece of advice I'll give to people is your mom is always right. -- Melissa Ordway
  • I wrote a novel, Ghost Road Rules, and as soon as it was done and polished, I began reaching out to agents. I ignored the frequent advice to 'shoot low and try for a low-level agent because they're the only ones that will take a flyer on a new author.' That sounded like bad advice to me. -- Jonathan Maberry
  • Bad advice is often most fatal to the adviser. -- Aulus Persius Flaccus
  • I'm bad when it comes to giving advice and best at expressing myself. -- Shawn Lukas
  • That man has offered me unsolicited advice for six years, most of it bad. -- Calvin Coolidge
  • I never take advice, good or bad. That would only encourage more of it. -- Lisa Kleypas
  • Nothing is more confusing than people who give good advice but set a bad example. -- Norman Vincent Peale
  • A bad cold wouldn't be so annoying if it weren't for the advice of our friends. -- Kin Hubbard
  • Advice from friends is like the weather. Some of it is good; some of it is bad. -- Arnold Lobel
  • My advice to defensive players: Take the shortest route to the ball and arrive in a bad humor. -- Bowden Wyatt
  • It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides. -- Jane Austen
  • Old men delight in giving good advice as a consolation for the fact that they can no longer set bad examples. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
  • Old people are fond of giving good advice; it consoles them for no longer being capable of setting a bad example. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
  • I've had good publishers and bad publishers, and you've got to learn when the advice is sensible and when it's not. -- Dean Koontz
  • I'm always there to tell people that their life is not that bad. I wish it was easy to follow that advice. -- Mignon McLaughlin
  • I still give my friends relationship advice, of course, and I'm not bad at it. 'Anyone's crisis but mine' is my motto. -- Carrie Fisher
  • Don't chew gum at an audition and wear really bad clothes. That doesn't work. You need to hear that! You need to hear practical advice. -- Julie Halston
  • I've passed along some advice that Oprah [Winfrey] gave to me: When something bad is happening, it's not happening to you; it's happening for you. -- Ava DuVernay
  • Advice!Nobody tells us how to be men. We just are." "That is probably why you make such a bad job of it.- Perrin and Egwene -- Robert Jordan
  • Some of the best advice I was given was that me doing a bad version of me is better than me doing a good version of someone else. -- Joe Louis Walker
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