Top 91 Old Advice Quotes

#1. It's old advice, but it's good: be yourself.

Kiera Cass

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#2. When the last Puritan has disappeared from the earth, the man of science will take his place as a killjoy, and we shall be given the same old advice but for different reasons.

Robert Staughton Lynd

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#3. I say fuck the old advice 'show, don't tell.' It's called story TELLING for a reason, and I'll stick to it!

Ashly Lorenzana

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#4. And it's old advice, but it's good: be yourself.
-Queen Amberly, The Selection/The Prince

Kiera Cass

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#5. Perhaps one of the only positive pieces of advice that I was ever given was that supplied by an old courtier who observed: Only two rules really count. Never miss an opportunity to relieve yourself; never miss a chance to sit down and rest your feet.

Edward VIII

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#6. Take care of the elderly people.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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#7. The old axiom that 'all power corrupts' has doubtful validity, because it derives from our neglect of Plato 's advice to find men carefully and train them by methods which make them fit for heroes.

Oswald Mosley

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#8. 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

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#9. Display startling novelty-rise afresh like the sun every day. Change too the scene on which you shine, so that you rloss may be felt in the old scenes of your triumph, while the novelty of your powers wins applause in the new.

Baltasar Gracian

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#10. There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.

Henry David Thoreau

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#11. Some of the best advice you will ever hear will come from the forest.

Dacha Avelin

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#12. No. The moral of the story in so far as it has one is that cannibals can study logic, and that if you are going to leave the path, you better have your wits about you and know better than to trust the first scary old lady who talks to you in public.

Nick Harkaway

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#13. Old men want to feel that the experience which has come with their years is valuable, that their advice is valuable, that they possess a sagacity that could be obtained only through experience - a sagacity that could be of use to young men if only young men would ask.

Robert A. Caro

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#14. Blessed is the society that has oldies.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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#15. If you want the advice of an old man, don't be afraid of making mistakes. That's life. Just be sure you're making them for the right reason.

Lou Harper

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#16. There is a misleading, unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous, very old, or Greek, then it must be good advice.

Bo Bennett

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#17. Most teenage girls don't give old people the time of day which is sad because all old people do all the time is think about how nice it was to be a teenager so long ago.

Aimee Bender

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#18. I asked people who have already finished books for advice, which is akin to asking a mother with a four-year-old what childbirth is like.

Amy Poehler

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#19. Work, my boy! forget me for a few years; I'd only give you bad advice; don't mention our meeting to your uncle- it might do you harm; don't think about an old man who would be dead long since, were it not for his dear habit of coming here every day and finding his old friends on these shelves.

Jules Verne

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#20. remember this old Zen joke, "Don't just do something, sit there!" I can think of no better market advice when you are feeling emotional.

Palgrave Macmillan Trade

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#21. Nothing like old-fashioned misogyny to make the ignorant turn down good advice.

Jane Harper

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#22. The young open the paper to forget about life by reading the funny strips. The old do it to forget about death by reading other people's obits. My advice: don't open the paper and go on with your life.

Gabriel Ba

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#23. You go to him for advice? He's only what? Five years old? I swear I own older sweaters. (Tory)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

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#24. It's my experience that very few writers, young or old, are really seeking advice when they give out their work to be read. They want support; they want someone to say, "Good job."

John Irving

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#25. If you ask a twenty-one-year-old poet whose poetry he likes, he might say, unblushing, "Nobody's," In his youth, he has not yet understood that poets like poetry, and novelists like novels; he himself likes only the role, the thought of himself in a hat.

Annie Dillard

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#26. Well, I just can't play the game anymore. I'm 63 years old, and I've been in the business for 40 years now. I take good advice and direction really well, but I don't need somebody that finished college two years ago to come in and tell me what I should be recording.

Charlie Daniels

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#27. My first advice on how not to grow old would be to choose you ancestors carefully.

Bertrand Russell

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#28. She is probably slightly too old to pout, but they've been going out a short enough time for it still to be cute.

Jojo Moyes

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#29. Take some advice from an old woman, Abbie. There's no such thing as a wrong decision. You make your choices in life based on the cards played to you and your emotions at the time. Whatever will be will be, you can't change fate.' 'Thank

Charlotte Fallowfield

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#30. We do not attend to the advice of the sage and experienced because we think they are old, forgetting that they once were young and placed in the same situations as ourselves.

William Hazlitt

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#31. Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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#32. Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro.

Dave Barry

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#33. Advice is not a gift, but a debt that the old owe to the young.

James Fenimore Cooper

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#34. Appeal with respect to elderly people as you would to the members of your own family.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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#35. Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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#36. Do not speak harshly to a grown-up man. He is old enough to be your father.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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#37. More advice. Don't go near the Old One. Do go near the Old One. Don't stay past twelve. Trust the Will. Don't trust the Will. I wish someone would tell me something straightforward for once.

Garth Nix

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#38. Take it from an old cadaver. Let go of the past.

David S.E. Zapanta

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#39. Old saws have no teeth.

Cynthia Ozick

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#40. An old man's advice is not an opinion

Nathanael Kanyinga

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#41. What's that old saying? "Advice is like opinions. Everyone's an asshole.

The Believer Magazine

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#42. DCI Horner's advice to Jack Spratt: "Remember, m'boy," his old boss had said, eyes twinkling, "that if anyone tries to get the better of you, stand up straight and say to yourself in an imperious air, 'I am the new Mrs. de Winter now!' You'll find it works wonders.

Jasper Fforde

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#43. It is our job as parents, to instill principles and values in our children. So that when they depart from you, those principles and values won't depart from them. Mallory Bullard, a street soldier from the old school.

Drexel Deal

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#44. So now that began to develop into a full-fledged shouting match of its own, and all in all it was soon a full-scale old-style Bombay tamasha, with people watching from every balcony and window in every building, up and down the road, laughing and giving advice and yelling at each other.

Vikram Chandra

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#45. 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

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#46. The best advice I can give a young aspiring singer is not to become an old aspiring singer.

Renata Scotto

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#47. Never take advice about never taking advice. That is an old vice of men - to dish it out without being able to take it - the blind leading the blind into more blindness.

Criss Jami

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#48. Do people conform to the instructions of us old ones? Each thinks he must know best about himself, and thus many are lost entirely.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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#49. It is funny, I don't feel old enough to give advice ... But with the advisers you trust, you better listen to them. It may be bad news but that's the only way you're going to improve.

Ben Heppner

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#50. Can I give a little advice to the old man on Capitol Hill? Stop saying teabagger. Ask your younger staffers what it means.

Andrea Tantaros

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#51. Two steps forward ... one step back ... I've always hated that old cliche too ... I believe that we should all be able to dance through life and only change the tempo now and then.

Isabelle Rowan

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#52. The closest thing Nick had seen to a high-powered lawyer in Melnik was eighty-five-year-old George Wesley, who handed out legal advice from his wheelchair in the assisted-living wing of Melnik Manor.

Mary Nealy

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#53. Let's die of it before we're too old.

John Le Carre

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#54. Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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#55. I think the best advice I ever got about acting was from my dad, which was, 'If they don't buy the fish on the first toss, throw it back in the wagon and go to the second house.' Which is like an old Jewish fishmongers' story about how you become a successful fish monger.

Lin Shaye

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#56. Replace your old books with the books you've always wanted to write.

Rob Bignell, Editor

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#57. My old manager of the Irish National Theatre said 'Don't worry about being a star, just worry about being a working actor. Just keep working.' I think that's really good advice.

Colm Meaney

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#58. When I was 16 years old, my brother Frank said, 'You'd better become a catcher, because you're too big and fat to do anything else.' Well, I took his advice. It was a quick way to get to the big leagues, and I've never regretted it.

Joe Torre

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#59. We'll never know. In the summer of 1971, against the advice of his mother, Howard Myers took a vacation to Florida. The combination of the heat and his medical condition combined to give him a massive heart attack which killed him. He was forty-one years old. There

Howard L. Myers

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#60. If I had any advice for my 16-year-old self, it would just be to stay strong, because acting is not an easy lifestyle, especially when you are starting out. That being said, it definitely makes it all worth it when it does happen.

Melissa Benoist

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#61. Etymology: from Latin ad-, "to" + visum, past participle of videre, "to see". Advice is what you get from your parents when you are growing up, and from your children when you are growing old.

Evan Esar

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#62. It's so weird to say this about the icon and legend that is Cher, but she's like an old girlfriend. We still talk all the time. She's an incredible person personally and professionally, giving such amazing advice, stories for days, been there done that. She's one of a kind.

Christina Aguilera

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#63. Old people like to give good advice as a consolation for the fact that they can no longer set bad examples.

Joseph Epstein

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#64. Once, if you told people you were self-published, they'd look at you like you were a smelly old jobless hobo just come off a dusty boxcar with soupcan shoes and a hat made from a coyote skull.

Chuck Wendig

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#65. More broadly across time and cultures, it seems, one perennial piece of advice to father has been the importance of acting tenderly toward their children. The New Father, it turns out, is an old story.

David Blankenhorn

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#66. My advice is this. For Christ's sake, don't write a book that is suitable for a kid of 12 years old, because the kids who read who are 12 years old are reading books for adults. I read all of the James Bond books when I was about 11, which was approximately the right time to read James Bond books.

Terry Pratchett

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#67. She's an old soldier's woman, and she has antennae for things that often escape the officer in the field.

Robert Ludlum

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#68. Once we were young, now we are adult.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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#69. I don't want to give advice to a 19-year-old, because I want a 19-year-old to make mistakes and learn from them. Make mistakes, make mistakes, make mistakes. Just make sure they're your mistakes.

Fiona Apple

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#70. Advice? You're too old to be given it and too young to take it.

Diana Gabaldon

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#71. Ronda, you know why a guy in his twenties goes after sixteen-year-old girls? Because they're dumb enough to believe his bullshit.

Ronda Rousey

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#72. You do realize she's over two thousand five hundred years old, speaks at least a hundred languages, and has such a depth of knowledge the Cadre comes to her for advice and information?"
Galen had no doubt all of that was true. "I don't intend to get into an intelligence contest with her.

Nalini Singh

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#73. You ought to love and care for your parents in their old age.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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#74. The trick is learning to frame your new ideas as tweaks of old ideas, to mix a little fluency with a little disfluency - to make your audience see the familiarity behind the surprise.

Derek Thompson

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#75. "No acute attacks of guilt and self-hatred?"

"Nope. I've taken Mr. Wu's advice: never mind how hard the times are, he always says, carry a green branch in your heart and a songbird will settle on it."

"Wow - where on earth does Mr. Wu get all these hoary old sayings from?"

Kerstin Gier

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#76. There's an old press-agents' slogan that's good advice: Don't read your publicity - weigh it.

Kathleen Winsor

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#77. Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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#78. There are worse things than being robbed ... " I could smell the sick old-meat stench on his breath, like he really had eaten my grandmother. " ... worse things than dyin' even. You be a good boy, Little Red, and maybe you'll get to live awhile. Maybe you'll get to die in your own natural time.

Neal Shusterman

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#79. You need to understand that truth is stranger than fiction. Listen: people are willing to swallow any old tripe as long as you say it without flinching. They want to be told stuff. And they don't want to doubt you either. It's too hard.

Craig Silvey

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#80. My advice to the 10 year old daughter is: fashion happens in a context. It's societal, it's cultural, it's historic, it's economic, and it's political. So all of her studies, everything that is happening in the world, all needs to be channeled through her in order to be a good designer.

Tim Gunn

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#81. What's the point of being old if you can't beleaguer the young with your vast stores of wisdom?

And what's the point of being young if you can't ignore all advice?

Laini Taylor

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#82. Asked to give advice to a 13-year-old girl about how to lead her life, I say find something you love to do. The goal shouldn't be accumulating money. It might be making changes in the world, or in your country.

Karen DeCrow

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#83. Remember that I'm old enough to give advice, and the advice I'm giving you now is exactly right, and a bird in the hand is better than a vulture in the air, ...

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

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#84. You must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff.

Miguel De Cervantes

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#85. The worst advice I ever received from my dad was to play by the book. My old man used to flip out whenever I would try to branch out and do something different. Although he didn't do it on purpose, he really held me back in the beginning.

Dimebag Darrell

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#86. Certainly, my advice is that communicating, lobbying, fundraising and engaging the public in policy and politics is far more exciting and inexpensive via the Internet. Old guard organizations like Common Cause had to evolve to embrace this new environment.

Chellie Pingree

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#87. The old Wall Street adage "never invest in anything that eats or needs repairs" may apply to racehorses, but it's malarkey when it comes to houses.

Peter Lynch

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#88. My parents were so old-fashioned in their attitude to sex that I would rather get in trouble with the police or at school because at least I would be punished less.

Clive Worth

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#89. I found that old Solomon proved it fair,
That a big-belly'd bottle's a cure for all care.

Robert Burns

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#90. I've said over and over again jokingly that the only way a woman can truly be completely satisfied is to get herself four different men - an old one, an ugly one, a Mandingo, and a gay
guy. Now the four of them combined? They got you covered.

Steve Harvey

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#91. That's one of the privileges of old age - you can give plenty of advice 'cause most folks think that's all you got left anyway.

Gloria Naylor

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