„I give myself sometimes admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.“

„I sometimes give myself excellent advice. Occasionally, I even listen to it.“

—  Jim Butcher, книга Ghost Story

Источник: Ghost Story

„Fortunately I have never learned to take the good advice I give myself nor the counsel of my fears.“

—  Ernest Hemingway American author and journalist 1899 - 1961

Источник: The Dangerous Summer (1985), Ch. 1

„I give myself very good advice, but I very seldom follow it.“

—  Lewis Carroll English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer 1832 - 1898

Вариант: She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).
Источник: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

„Sometimes economists in official positions give bad advice; sometimes they give very, very bad advice; and sometimes they work at the OECD.“

—  Paul Krugman American economist 1953

"The Beatings Must Continue" http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/30/the-beatings-must-continue-2/, 30 April 2013
The Conscience of a Liberal blog

„I give you advice, which could I myself follow, I should be happy.“

—  Peter Abelard French scholastic philosopher, theologian and preeminent logician 1079 - 1142

Letter I : Abelard To Philintus, as translated by John Hughes<!-- 1782 edition -->
Контексте: Sometimes I grieve for the house of the Paraclete, and wish to see it again. Ah, Philintus! does not the love of Heloise still burn in my heart? I have not yet triumphed over that happy passion. In the midst of my retirement I sigh, I weep, I pine, I speak the dear name of Heloise, pleased to hear the sound, I complain of the severity of Heaven. But, oh! let us not deceive ourselves: I have not made a right use of grace. I am thoroughly wretched. I have not yet torn from my heart deep roots which vice has planted in it. For if my conversion was sincere, how could I take a pleasure to relate my past follies? Could I not more easily comfort myself in my afflictions? Could I not turn to my advantage those words of God himself, If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if the world hate you, ye know that it hated me also? Come Philintus, let us make a strong effort, turn our misfortunes to our advantage, make them meritorious, or at least wipe out our offences; let us receive, without murmuring, what comes from the hand of God, and let us not oppose our will to his. Adieu. I give you advice, which could I myself follow, I should be happy.

„A fop sometimes gives important advice.“

—  Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux French poet and critic 1636 - 1711

Un fat quelquefois ouvre un avis important.
Canto IV, l. 50
The Art of Poetry (1674)

„and if I have any advice to give to anybody it’s this: take up watercolor painting.“

—  Charles Bukowski, книга Notes of a Dirty Old Man

Источник: Notes of a Dirty Old Man

„Sometimes it helps to scold yourself, to give yourself advice.“

—  R.L. Stine, книга The Haunted Mask II

Источник: The Haunted Mask II

„I cannot properly give advice to anybody. It is very often supposed Judges can give advice, and I therefore take this public opportunity of saying that a Judge cannot do it.“

—  Sir John Bayley, 1st Baronet British judge 1763 - 1841

Trial of Dewhurst and others (1820), 1 St. Tr. (N. S.) 607.

„I am incapable of mediocrity.“

—  Serge Gainsbourg French musician and actor 1928 - 1991

„I am beginning to measure myself in strength, not pounds. Sometimes in smiles.“

—  Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls

Источник: Wintergirls

„Sentimentally I am disposed to harmony; but organically I am incapable of a tune.“

—  Charles Lamb, книга Essays of Elia

A Chapter on Ears; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Essays of Elia (1823)

„Who am I helping, what am I breaking, what am I giving, what am I taking?“

—  Bob Dylan American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist 1941

„Most men give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.“

—  Tom Stoppard British playwright 1937

Misattributed
Источник: William R(ounseville) Alger, American clergyman and writer [1822-1905]; reported in Raphael Lewin, Ed., The New Era (1872), Volume 2, p. 315.

„Most men give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.“

—  William R. Alger American clergyman and poet 1822 - 1905

Reported in Raphael Lewin, Ed., The New Era (1872), Volume 2, p. 315.

„I'm not a very happy person," I told him."But sometimes I can trick myself into thinking I am.“

—  David Levithan American author and editor 1972

Источник: Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd

„Given my heritage and the ordeal of my childhood, I sometimes wonder why I myself am not insane. Maybe I am.“

—  Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas

Источник: Odd Thomas

„Sometimes I doubt and sometimes I believe. And I like not making myself believe when I am doubting, and not making myself doubt when I am believing. Surely neither God nor Accident need my consistency.“

—  Hugh Prather American writer 1938 - 2010

Источник: I Touch the Earth, the Earth Touches Me

„In avoiding the appearance of evil, I am not sure but I have sometimes unnecessarily deprived myself and others of innocent enjoyments.“

—  Rutherford B. Hayes American politician, 19th President of the United States (in office from 1877 to 1881) 1822 - 1893

As quoted in Rutherford B. Hayes, and His America (1954) by Harry Barnard. p. 481