英语名人名言分类之Advice(建议篇).doc

ADVICE (Related Subjects: Criticism, Proverbs) Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC)It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.Anne Tyler (1941 - ), Celestial Navigation, 1974People who ask our advice almost never take it. Yet we should never refuse to give it, upon request, for it often helps us to see our own way more clearly.Brendan FrancisAsk advice only of your equals.Danish ProverbPlease give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950), LettersDont give advice. It will come back and bite you in the butt. Dont take anyones advice. So, my advice to you is to be true to yourself and everything will be fine.Ellen DeGeneres, Tulane Commencement Speech, 2009Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.English ProverbAdvice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didnt.Erica JongGood advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)Never give advice unless asked.German ProverbSome people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.Gordon R. DicksonThere is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.Gore Vidal (1925 - )The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.Hannah Whitall Smith, 1902I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972)The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)Dont try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.Philip K. Dick (1928 - 1982), What The Dead Men Say, 1964The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve; we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right or wrong.Pierre CharronMany receive advice, few profit by it.Publilius Syrus (100 BC), MaximsAdvice is very easy to give, and even easier not to follow, so I dont fool with it.Randy Pausch, Carnegie Mellon Commencement Speech, 2008It seems that bad advice thats fun will always be better known than than good advice thats dull-no matter how useless that fun advice is.Scott Berkun, Confessions of a Public Speaker, 2009Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble.Sidney J. HarrisIn giving advice, seek to help, not please,