Quotes About Counsel

I counsel you, put down in record even your doubts and surmises. Hereafter it may be of interest to you to see how true you guess. We learn from failure, not from success.

I don't give investment advice.

I'm very close to Jay Sekulow. We know each other very well. Trust Jay.

Young people are fitter to invent than to judge fitter for execution than for counsel and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.

He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

Look upon good books; they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble: be you but true to yourself...and you shall need no other comfort nor counsel.

Whoseoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god. Certain it is that the light that a man receiveth by counsel from another is drier and purer than that which cometh from his own understanding and judgment.

W]hen any of the four pillars of government are mainly shaken or weakened (which are religion, justice, counsel and treasure), men had need to pray for fair weather.

So when any of the four pillars of government, are mainly shaken, or weakened (which are religion, justice, counsel, and treasure), men had need to pray for fair weather.

Young men are fitter to invent than to judge, fitter for execution than for counsel, and fitter for new projects than for settled business.

The art of advice is to make the recipient believe he thought the thought of it himself.

Lee Rankin, General Counsel appointed to the Justice Department in 1953.

Anybody who thinks talk is cheap should get some legal advice.

But look, you did not have to be well versed in politics to know that some stupid things were going on. It is the counsel's job to stop them, and instead the coverup was created.

People who ask our advice almost never take it. Yet we should never refuse to give it, upon request, for it often helps us to see our own way more clearly.

It would surpass the powers of a well man nowadays to take up his bed and walk, and I should certainly advise a sick one to lay down his bed and run.

Death, that inexorable judge, had passed sentence on him, and refused to grant him a reprieve, though two doctors who arrived, and were fee'd at one and the same instant, were his counsel.

You need someone in your life to give you advice without yelling at you.

Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.

Evil counsel travels fast.

A fair trial is one in which the rules of evidence are honored, the accused has competent counsel, and the judge enforces the proper courtroom procedures - a trial in which every assumption can be challenged.

Good advice is not often served in our favorite flavor.

Lord, open my ears to receive good counsel, allow my head to accept it and enable my person to carry it out.