29 Metaphors for advice

'Your advice?' 'What's the good of advising a man born to be fooled?

My advice is, avoid it in all cases where you can. COLIC.

"Go west," his famous advice to young men, became the slang phrase of the hour.

I have fought In many a battle, vanquished many a foe; By Feridún's commands I girt my loins, And his advice has ever been my guide.

Advice that women should go back into the home was then as now the readiest cure for the evil, for even so early as this the men realized that the underpayment of women meant the underpayment of men, while the employment of women too often meant the dis-employment of men.

This advice was the key to the more than indulgent treatment which, as we have seen, the girl had received from her father and all about her.

Sir David's advice was only the echo of John Saltram's counselthe counsel which he would receive from every man of the world, no doubtthe counsel which he himself would most likely have given to a friend under the same circumstances.

His advice to the slave to accept the boon of freedom, was a purely incidental remark: and we cannot infer from it, how great stress he would have laid on the evils of slavery, and on the blessings of liberty, in a discourse treating directly and mainly of those subjects.

A party of revolt was formed among the Peers, and the Prime Minister was branded as a traitor who was guilty of treason and whose advice to the King in the words of the vote of censure was "a gross violation of constitutional liberty.

The advice of Polonius to his son and such literature was to me the ancient wisdom.

The advice of Consul Williams to delay this, is a diplomatic play to gain time until the arrival of General Merritt, because he is well aware of the false position said General would find himself in.

No one could be less suited than he to advise about fiction, yet to his daughter his advice was almost the equivalent of a command.

But to be sure, the advice from them was not half the efficacy as it will be from Miss Howe.

This advice I pressed with such arguments, that the king was once going to despatch orders for the doing it; but to be irresolute in counsel is always the companion of a declining fortune; the king was doubtful, and could not resolve till it was too late.

That omen liked him not; so his advice Was present safety, bought at any price; A seeming pious care, that cover'd cowardice.

[Footnote 191: Darwin (Animals and Plants, I, 8) cites this passage and argues that Varro's advice to cover the duck yard with netting to keep the ducks from flying out is evidence that in Varro's time ducks were not entirely domesticated, and hence that the modern domestic duck is the same species as the wild duck.

"The bad advice of that madman Chanteloupe has been the cause of all the errors of which she has been guilty.

But even this advice of his, if duly followed, would be a great advance upon the practice which generally prevails.

Your Advice would be a great Obligation to, SIR, Your most humble Servant, Ralph Thimbleton.

No one has ever thought that direct advice from the Lord was sufficient authority for the doing of that of which he himself disapproved.

The advices from New York were the springs by which the market in New Orleans was controlled.

The baron's estrang'd behaviour was no small addition to his other discontents, and he lamented the cruel necessity which had enforced him to disoblige a person to whom he owed so many favours, and whose advice would now have been the greatest consolation.

The letter is interesting as showing by contemporary authority that Boon's advice and McGarry's misbehavior are not mere matters of tradition.

My advice is not to Trust him, or any other sneakin' varmint like him.

" His advice to the players was not advice.

29 Metaphors for  advice