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Quotes About Counsel

Listen, it's very easy not to be ripped off, you know. Get yourself a lawyer.
~ Samantha Fox
Where there are many counsellors there is safety.
~ Edward Coke
Back at his office, knowing he could now never be Richard's lawyer, Adashek phoned Gallegos and asked him to visit Richard at the jail. To keep Richard from calling the press, Adashek phoned Judge Soper and asked her if she'd bar Richard from having access to the phone and telling reporters that he was guilty. Such a story would virtually destroy Richard's chances at trial if his new counsel decided to litigate the case. Judge Soper took his request under advisement.
~ Philip Carlo
Oxnard attorney Joseph Gallegos had heard that Ramirez was looking for new counsel. Gallegos had recently represented on murder charges a Mexican gang member who had been convicted and sentenced to twenty-seven years.
~ Philip Carlo
Uncle knows best.
~ Philip Reeve
So, then, the best of the historian is subject to the poet; for whatsoever action or faction, whatsoever counsel, policy, or war-stratagem the historian is bound to recite, that may the poet, if he list, with his imitation make his own, beautifying it both for further teaching and more delighting, as it pleaseth him; having all, from Dante's Heaven to his Hell, under the authority of his pen.
~ Philip Sidney
The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is.
~ Phillips Brooks
When we visited with legislative counsel, they told us that the only way to effectively accomplish what we were trying to do was to put the words in the legislation.
~ Doug Ose
My mind has been long fixed to bow to the judgment of the world, who will judge me by my acts, and will never take counsel from me as to what that judgment should be.
~ Jon Meacham
Because I have called and you refused, 24 I have stretched out my hand and no one regarded, Because you disdained all my counsel, 25 And would have none of my rebuke, I also will laugh at your calamity; 26 I will mock when your terror comes, When your terror comes like a storm, 27 And your destruction comes like a whirlwind, When distress and anguish come upon you. Proverbs 1:23-27
~ Joseph Campbell
I do not love you as I loved The loves I have loved, As I may love others: I know you are not beautiful As some I loved were beautiful, As others may be: I do not hold your counsel dear As I've held others, As I still hold some: And yet There is no truth but you, No love but you-- And Oh! there is no pain But you and me.
~ A. Norman Jeffares
A lawyer's time and advice are his stock in trade.
~ Abraham Lincoln
He who is not impressed by sound advice, lacks faith.
~ Abu Bakr
When you advise any person you should be guided by the fear of God.
~ Abu Bakr
Ga thought of how difficult it was to come to see the lies you told yourself, the ones that allowed you to function and move forward. To really do it, you needed someone's help.
~ Adam Johnson
We should be careful and discriminating in all the advice we give. We should be especially careful in giving advice that we would not think of following ourselves. Most of all, we ought to avoid giving counsel which we don't follow when it damages those who take us at our word.
~ Adlai Stevenson
Everyone needs a safe place in life, and pastors can be people's safe place.
~ Paula White
Love is the beginning, the middle, and the end of the pathway of discipleship. It comforts, counsels, cures, and consoles.
~ Joseph B. Wirthlin
Sashi will assume the general counsel responsibilities formerly held by Paul Vance, who is leaving the franchise after 18 years of service.
~ Shahid Khan
Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.
~ Plautus
Lycurgus was of opinion that ornaments were so far from advantaging them in their counsels, that they were rather an hindrance, by diverting their attention from the business before them to statues and pictures, and roofs curiously fretted, the usual embellishments of such places amongst the other Greeks.
~ Plutarch
he would yet do full well to wait for that wisest of all counsellors, Time.
~ Plutarch
Advise and counsel him; if he does not listen, let adversity teach him.
~ Proverb
Time gives good advice. (El tiempo da buen consejo.)
~ Proverb