To consult is to seek another's...

To consult is to seek another's advice on a course already decided upon.

--Ambrose Bierce

No one wants advice...

No one wants advice--only corroboration.

--John Steinbeck

I have found the best way to give...

I 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

Good advice is always certain...

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.

--Agatha Christie

Friendship will not stand the strain...

Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.

--Robert Lynd

Advice is like snow...

Advice is like snow--the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.

--Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A good man giving bad advice...

A good man giving bad advice is more dangerous than a nasty man giving bad advice.

--Conor Cruise O'Brien