Bob Dylan Quotes

We all have the temptation to be backseat drivers when it comes to decisions that don't work out the way we want.

No vice is so bad as advice.

Some people will always think they know how to make other people's marriages better, and, after a while, they'll get to cudgeling you or selling you something; the really entrepreneurial types will sell you the cudgel.

Advice is priceless: when it becomes interference it is preposterous.

Managing the other fellow's business is a fascinating game. Trade unionists all over the country have pronounced ideas for the reform of Wall Street banks; and Wall Street bankers are not far behind in giving plans for the tremendous improvement of trade union policies. Wholesalers have schemes for improving the retailer; the retailer knows just what is wrong in the conduct of wholesale business-and we might go through a long list.... Yet for some reason the classes that ought to be helped keep on stubbornly clinging to their own method of running their affairs.

The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business.

One sure way to lose another woman's friendship is to try to improve her flower arrangements.

Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take.

Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

It's kind of hard to spend long hours trying to help people and then find out that the favorite game of the columnist is to sit back and second guess you and try to find something that you did wrong.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

[Referring to Herbert Hoover:] That man has offered me unsolicited advice for six years—all of it bad.

I think it's always easier to sit on the outside and act as if you have the best solution.

Sometimes you meet people that try to explain to you your work, and how to write a song and how to sing it, and they explain that you are doing it the wrong way. And yeah, it's always super frustrating.

It's horrible dating with Mama Mai! She is nosy. When I was a kid she would be the first one eavesdropping on my phone calls: 'Hello? Who you call for? Huh?'

People always want to give you advice about parenting. People who you've never met before will tell you you're doing something wrong. And it's quite similar in writing. People forget that you're a human; they just want to give you their advice.

I think there's something inherently interesting in the Monday morning quarterback: the guy who, you know, sits at one end of the briefing room and tells everyone what they should've done and how they've screwed up.

Thinking back, the majority of the conflicts I've had in my life have been a result of offering up my two unwelcome cents, crossing that line between constructive truth-telling and preaching.

Some men, like a wet dog, sprinkle a shower of advice over you when you are least prepared for a bath.

The critical spirit never knows when to stop meddling.

You is getting nosier than a parker.

I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

He’s always asking: ‘Is that new? I haven’t seen that before.’ It’s like, Why don’t you mind your own business? Solve world hunger. Get out of my closet.

We give nothing so freely as advice.