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| Advice after mischief is like medicine after death. Danish. | 1 |
| Advice given in the midst of a crowd is loathsome. Arabian. | 2 |
| Advice is not a popular thing to give. | 3 |
| Advice is not compulsion. German. | 4 |
| Advice like water takes the form of the vessel it is poured into. Punch. | 5 |
| Advice should precede the act. German. | 6 |
| Advice to a fool goes in at one ear and out at the other. Danish. | 7 |
| Advice to all, security for none. | 8 |
| Advice whispered is not worth a pea. Spanish. | 9 |
| Advise no one to go to the wars or to marry. Spanish. | 10 |
| Advise not what is most pleasant, but what is most useful. Solon. | 11 |
| Advisers are not givers. Dutch. | 12 |
| Advisers are not the payers. French. | 13 |
| Advising is easier than helping. German. | 14 |
| Advising is often better than fighting. German. | 15 |
| A good advice is as good as an eye in the hand. French. | 16 |
| Ask advice of your equals, help of your superiors. Danish. | 17 |
| Good advice can be given, a good name cannot be given. Turkish. | 18 |
| He asks advice in vain who will not follow it. French. | 19 |
| He who follows his own advice must take the consequences. Spanish. | 20 |
| He who will not take advice gets knowledge when trouble overtakes him. African. | 21 |
| He who will not take advice, will have to buy dear repentance. | 22 |
| He who won’t be advised can’t be helped. German. | 23 |
| If you wish good advice consult an old man. | 24 |
| It is better to seek advice at the beginning than the end. German. | 25 |
| It is easy to give advice when all goes well. Italian. | 26 |
| Less advice and more hands. German. | 27 |
| Let the meritorious and defective mutually advise. Hindu. | 28 |
| Man gives nothing so willingly as advice. | 29 |
| Many persons take advice as they do physic, to fling aside the moment the doctor’s back is turned. Punch. | 30 |
| Never advise a man to go to the wars nor to marry. Spanish. | 31 |
| Never give advice unasked. German. | 32 |
| No advice like a father’s. | 33 |
| Nothing is given so freely as advice. French. | 34 |
| One piece of good advice is better than a bag full. Danish. | 35 |
| Out of evils advice is easy. Modern Greek. | 36 |
| Take advice of a red-bearded man and begone. Danish. | 37 |
| The advice of many persons is requisite in great affairs. Coke. | 38 |
| The worst men often give the best advice. Bailey. | 39 |
| There is nothing we receive so reluctantly as advice. Spectator. | 40 |
| Though old and wise be still advised. | 41 |
| To prescribe physic for the dead and advice to the old is the same thing. Diogenes. | 42 |
| We are casting our words in a leaky cask. (Throwing away our advice) Plautus. | 43 |
| We may give advice but we cannot give conduct. Franklin. | 44 |
| We receive nothing with such reluctance as advice. Latin. | 45 |
| We should never be too proud to take advice even from the lowly. German. | 46 |
| Whatever advice you give, be short. Horace. | 47 |
| When a thing is done advice comes too late. French. | 48 |
| When advice will not correct the rod will not. Modern Greek. | 49 |
| When error is committed good advice comes too late. Chinese. | 50 |
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| When the rabbit has escaped comes advice. Spanish. | 51 |
| When they tell you you are drunk hold by the wall and go on. (Take advice.) Modern Greek. | 52 |
| When things go well it is easy to advise. Dutch. | 53 |
| Worthless is the advice of fools. Latin. | 54 |
| Write down the advice of him that loves you though you like it not at present. | 55 |
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