Gertrude Stein on advice

The family is always the family but during vacations it is an extended family and that is exhausting.

War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.

America is my country and Paris is my home town and it is as it has come to be.

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)