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• No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own.
  He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a teacher. -- Ben Johnso...
• First Law of Advice: The correct advice is to give the advice that is desired.
• The correct advice is to give the advice that is desired. -- First law of Advice
• If a man knows where to get good advice, it is as though he could supply it himself. -- Goethe
• Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power. -- Seneca
• There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between counsel of a friend and a flatterer.
  -- Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)...
• Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice.
  -- William Shakespeare, (The only good part of Polonius' advice to Laertes)...
• The man who comes with a tale about others has himself an ax to grind. -- Chinese proverb
• The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others.