VERIFY: When we ask for advice we are usually looking for an accomplice.
— Charles Varlet Marquis de La Grange
Charles Varlet Marquis de La Grange, 1639-1692, Pensèes.
People asking for advice often just want someone to agree with a decision already made.
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Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.
— Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
Advice is one thing most people would rather give than get.
— Unknown
"Moses and his people were in the desert, but what was he going to do with them? They had to be fed, and feeding 2 or 3 …
— Unknown
Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
We ask advice, but we mean approbation.
— Charles Caleb Colton
How is it possible to expect mankind to take advice when they will not so much as take warning?
— Swift
