Charles de Gaulle on advice

How can you be expected to govern a country that has 246 kinds of cheese?

How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over 200 varieties of cheeses?

France has lost a battle, but France has not lost the war.

Accept good advice gracefully⁠—as long as it doesn’t interfere with what you intended to do in the first place.

Gene Brown

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

Oscar Wilde1854–1900An Ideal Husband (1895)

Never take anything for granted.

Benjamin Disraeli1804–1881Speech at Salthill (5 October 1864)