Advises: Webster's Quotations, Facts and Phrases
- Language ENG
- Pages (approximate) 355
- Item Code 0546673902
- Published 2008-11-26
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Introduction
Description
Excerpt
Familiar Quotations
Advises
Before you advise anyone ''Be yourself!'' reassess his character.–Anonymous
Many folks want to serve God, but only as advisers.–Anonymous
There was a break at the prison yesterday. An ex-fortune teller, described as being short with dark hair, broke out of prison. The public is advised to be on the lookout for a small medium at large.–Anonymous
If I were an Englishman, I should esteem the man who advised a war with China to be the greatest living enemy of my country. You would be beaten in the end, and perhaps a revolution in India would follow.–Napoleon Bonaparte
I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.–Les Brown
I do by no means advise you to throw away your time in ransacking, like a dull antiquarian, the minute and unimportant parts of remote and fabulous times. Let blockheads read, what blockheads wrote.–Chesterfield
I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can't be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.–Calvin Coolidge
An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.–Albert Einstein
How come financial advisers never seem to be as wealthy as they think they can make us.–Doug Larson
You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.–John N. Mitchell
Table of Contents
- Preface vi
- Familiar Quotations 1
- Advises 1
- Advises – "Admonish" 2
- Advises – "Announcements" 2
- Use in Literature 3
- Advises 3
- Advises – "Act" 20
- Advises – "Advice" 20
- Advises – "Alone" 21
- Advises – "Attended" 21
- Advises – "Bad" 22
- Advises – "Being" 22
- Advises – "Best" 23
- Advises – "Business" 24
- Advises – "Called" 24
- Advises – "Captain" 25
- Advises – "Carry" 26
- Advises – "Cases" 26
- Advises – "Change" 27
- Advises – "Chief" 28
- Advises – "Circumstances" 28
- Advises – "Day" 29
- Advises – "Doctor" 29
- Advises – "Familiar" 30
- Advises – "Far" 31
- Advises – "Father" 32
- Advises – "Feeling" 33
- Advises – "Found" 33
- Advises – "Friend" 34
- Advises – "Go" 35
- Advises – "Great" 37
- Advises – "Hand" 39
- Advises – "Having" 40
- Advises – "Heard" 40
- Advises – "Heart" 41
- Advises – "Help" 42
- Advises – "Hold" 42
- Advises – "Hoping" 43
- Advises – "House" 43
- Advises – "Interest" 44
- Advises – "Keep" 44
- Advises – "Kind" 46
- Advises – "King" 46
- Advises – "Large" 47
- Advises – "Leaves" 48
- Advises – "Letter" 48
- Advises – "Listened" 49
- Advises – "Little" 49
- Advises – "Lived" 50
- Advises – "Looked" 51
- Advises – "Make" 51
- Advises – "Man" 54
- Advises – "Matter" 56
- Advises – "Means" 58
- Advises – "Mother" 58
- Advises – "Night's" 59
- Advises – "Old" 59
- Advises – "Opinion" 60
- Advises – "Order" 61
- Advises – "Others" 62
- Advises – "Party" 63
- Advises – "People" 63
- Advises – "Possible" 64
- Advises – "Present" 65
- Advises – "Public" 65
- Advises – "Question" 66
- Advises – "Readily" 67
- Advises – "Reasons" 68
- Advises – "Return" 68
- Advises – "Secret" 69
- Advises – "Shall" 69
- Advises – "Soon" 70
- Advises – "Speaks" 71
- Advises – "Spiritual" 71
- Advises – "Strongly" 72
- Advises – "Talk" 73
- Advises – "Thing" 73
- Advises – "Thought" 74
- Advises – "Try" 77
- Advises – "Uncle" 78
- Advises – "Wait" 78
- Advises – "Walk" 79
- Advises – "Words" 79
- Advises – "Write" 80
- Advises – "Year" 81
- Advises – "Youngster" 81
- Nonfiction Usage 83
- Journalism Usage 83
- Legal Usage 104
- Governmental Usage 105
- Patent Usage 107
- Bibliographic Usage 108
- Encyclopedic Usage 114
- Lexicographic Usage 209
- Index 333
