We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I take everything with a grain of salt.
The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.
Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
Seek not for fresher founts afar, just drop you bucket where you are.
When your neighbour's house is on fire, you should help with a bucket of water.
Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.
I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.
He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.
The people sensible enough to give good advice are usually sensible enough to give none.
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.