"A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes" — Joseph Addison

If the lion was advised by the fox, he would be cunning

Source: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790-1793)

Many receive advice; few profit from it.

Source: The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus (1856 translation)

How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice, when they will not so much as take warning?

Source: Thoughts on Various Subjects

If I’d listened to my consumers, I’d have given them a faster horse

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad

Joseph Addison Quote