Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into, the mind.
Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection, AApex Software, 1994.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, (Oct 21 1772-1834), English poet, critic, essayist; He was a noted poet of the Romantic movement; wrote Rime of the Ancient Mariner, 1798.