Quotes About Counsel

It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.

For we are all the elect, each one of us, and we are embarked upon a journey to something unimaginable. We do not know what will be required of us, and we have nothing to sustain us but the counsel of our fathers.

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

if you suggested to people what the right thing to do would be, they would be smart enough to pick it up and do it

With a combination of nimble counsel, exasperating ego, studied patience, and street-fighter tactics, William D. Leahy, Ernest J. King, Chester W. Nimitz, and William F. Halsey, Jr., built the modern United States Navy and won World War II on the seas. Each

We had good white friends who advised us against taking the war path. My friend and brother, Mr. Chapman, told us just how the war would end.

The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.

Friends are more than just people who will listen to what you have to say and agree with you. Sometimes they have to tell you things you don't want to hear for your own sake. Please listen to what we have to say.

I always get the best advice from myself.

There's no such thing as advice to the lovelorn. If they took advice, they wouldn't be lovelorn. You see, advice and lovelorn don't go together. Because advice makes love sound like some sort of cognitive activity, but we know that it isn't. We all know that it's some sort of horrible chemical reaction over which we have absolutely no control. And that's why advice doesn't work.

You will defend me against the Pruitts' lawsuit and officially state, for the record, that my conduct was appropriate, professional, and within policy." "That's the general counsel's decision to make, not mine." "Then you'd better convince him, or I will file a lawsuit against the sheriff's department for repeatedly trying to kill me.

PROVERB: "A wise man, looking for a bride, should take an ignoramus along to advise him.

He is the brother-in-law of the sister-in-law of the father-in-law of my mother-in-law, and therefore is the closest relative we have; so nothing is done in our family without his advice.

I thank you; but I assure you you are quite mistaken. Mr. Elton and I are very good friends, and nothing more;' and she walked on, amusing herself in the consideration of the blunders which often arise from a partial knowledge of circumstances, of the mistakes which people of high pretensions to judgment are for ever falling into; and not very well pleased with her brother for imagining her blind and ignorant, and in want of counsel.

I have always had an attorney on retainer, and now I believe I will have to put him to work.

Diversity in counsel, unity in command." –Cyrus the Great Founder of the Achaemenid Empire, known as the "king of Persia

Cuál es el peor consejo que ves u oyes dar en tu entorno?

Cuál es el peor consejo que oyes dar a menudo?

If someone needs help, I can offer advice. I'm not always right and people don't always listen.

Like any good lawyer, I'm going to maintain a confidentiality of advice offered in confidence.

I was the oldest of seven kids, so I had no older brother who would say, 'Schmuck, don't do that.'

I give opinions, not advice.

There are a lot of people who give you their opinions on what to do.

Io dispenso sempre buoni consigli... non saprei cosa farmene altrimenti.