Snarky quotes about advice that that rip the soul out of “follow your dreams” and stomp it in a puddle of overpriced therapy jargon.
For those who've seen enough TED Talks to know giving advice is less about helping and more about monetizing your midlife crisis.
Advice is like unsolicited Botox: slapped on too hard, it leaves wrinkles and regret.
You’ve heard it all:
Sure. And so is expired yogurt if you spin it hard enough.
If you’re over the sage-on-a-mountain clichés and done being spiritually gaslit by people who sell clarity in pastel fonts, then jump into the snark den with Snarky Suzie.
Snarky Quotes About Advice
Scroll down, pour something strong, and let’s whip advice into shape with sarcasm sharp enough to cut through toxic positivity.
Original: “The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.” — Oscar Wilde
Original: “You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.” — John Steinbeck
Original: “No enemy is worse than bad advice.” — Sophocles
Original: “We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.” — Tom Stoppard
Original: “Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Original: “I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.” — Gloria Steinem
Original: “We may give advice, but we cannot give conduct.” — Benjamin Franklin
Original: “There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.” — Joseph Addison
Original: “Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.” — Benjamin Franklin
Original: “Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.” — François de La Rochefoucauld
Original: “We are never so generous as when giving advice.” — François de La Rochefoucauld
Original: “The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.” — Harry S. Truman
Original: “It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.” — J. C. Macaulay
Original: “I do not like giving advice: it is incurring an unnecessary responsibility.” — Benjamin Disraeli
Original: “"Be yourself" is about the worst advice you can give some people.” — Thomas Lansing Masson
Original: “When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him.” — Josh Billings
Original: “Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.” — William Somerset Maugham
Original: “The worst men often give the best advice.” — Francis Bacon
Original: “I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.” — Lord Chesterfield
Original: “The character of giving advice often makes us accountable for the conduct of those we advise.” — Norm MacDonald
And there you have it, more advice than a self-help book club with a wine subscription.
Some of it’s wise, some of it’s weird, and some of it sounds like it was scribbled on a bar napkin at 2 a.m. by your cousin Ted after his third life crisis.
But hey whether you follow these snarky life quotes about advice, ignore it, or use it as passive-aggressive Instagram captions... just remember:
