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Quotes About Counsel

You should tell him, I say. Which is not bad advice, I think. Not advice I would take myself, but that doesn't necessarily make it bad.
~ Holly Black
It is said that faerie children are not like mortal children. They need little in the way of love. They need not be tucked in at night, but may sleep just as happily in a cold corner of a ballroom, curled up in a tablecloth. They need not be fed; they are just as happy lapping up dew and skimming bread and cream from the kitchens. They need not be comforted, since they seldom weep. But if faerie children need little love, faerie princes require some counsel.
~ Holly Black
The trouble with advice is that it's usually something you don't want to hear.
~ Unknown
Speran?a este un sfetnic prost.
~ Lion Feuchtwanger
Usually any advice I hand out is advice I need to hear as well." "So
~ Unknown
In my world, I have to keep my counsel at times, accept players are going to criticise various things, accuse you of various things. Sometimes you react, sometimes you don't.
~ Alan Pardew
The House of Representatives provides a special, nonpartisan staff of lawyers, called Legislative Counsel, who are experts in various areas of the law.
~ Jared Polis
Here it's probably worth pointing out that the original meaning of advice was "judgment.
~ Jennifer Traig
seventeen, tells her
~ Jennifer Weiner
The most abysmal advise ever given by the ignorant to the stupid.
~ Tommy Armour
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.
~ Fred F. Fielding
Advice is the only commodity on the market where the supply always exceeds the demand.
~ Unknown
Let no man value at a little price A virtuous woman's counsel; her winged spirit Is feathered often times with heavenly words, And, like her beauty, ravishing and pure.
~ George Chapman
I'll tell you one thing: Don't ever give anybody your best advice, because they're not going to follow it.
~ Jack Nicholson
Get out of show business. Its the best advice I ever got, because Im so stubborn that if someone would tell me that, I would stay in it to the bitter end.
~ Walter Matthau
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.
~ Francis Bacon
It is indeed an odd business that it has taken this Court nearly two centuries to discover a constitutional mandate to have counsel at a preliminary hearing.
~ Warren E. Burger
In addition I had real and serious questions about an independent counsel investigation that began with private business dealings twenty years ago
~ William J. Clinton
Lust is a captivity of the reason and an enraging of the passions. It hinders business and distracts counsel. It sins against the body and weakens the soul.
~ Jeremy Taylor
Axioms are often cherished long after reason would counsel their abandonment.
~ Peter Green
The difference between a counsel and a commandment is that a commandment implies obligation, whereas a counsel is left to the option of the one to whom it is given.
~ Peter Kreeft
What's a good lawyer besides a superior bullshitter?...
~ Peter Straub
The powers of this world are very strong. Men and women are moved by tides much fiercer than you can imagine, and they sweep us all up into the current. Go well, Lyra; bless you, child, bless you. Keep your own counsel.
~ Philip Pullman
My advice to myself would be I should probably listen to advice.
~ Hugh Skinner