Useless Advice Quotes

I'll tell you one thing: Don't ever give anybody your best advice, because they're not going to follow it.

...as for helping me in the outside world, the Convent taught me only that if you spit on a pencil eraser, it will erase ink.

It is as easy to give advice to yourself as to others, and as useless.

It's useless to lecture a human.

Telling someone with depression to pull themselves together is about as useful as telling someone with cancer to just stop having cancer

I don't know who the great lawyers are, and I presume you can't get to them. I know of no case where it can be said for certain that they took part. They defend some people, but you can't get them to do that through your own efforts, they only defend the ones they want to defend. But I assume a case they take on must have progressed beyond the lower court. It's better not to think of them at all, otherwise you'll find the consultations with the other lawyers, their advice and their assistance, extremely disgusting and useless.

I now have had my foggy crystal ball for quite a long time. Its predictions are invariably gloomy and usually correct, but I am quite used to that and they won't keep me from giving you a few suggestions, even if it is merely an exercise in futility whose only effect is to make you feel guilty.

Stop with the stupid messages. I don't need a message that says, 'Go on, you can do it today.' What does that mean?!

The counsel of the dead is not profitable to the living.