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Quotes About Counsel

It is easy to give advice from a port of safety.
~ Friedrich von Schiller
It is the part of a fool to give advice to others and not himself to be on his guard.
~ Phaedrus
Know when to speak - for many times it brings danger, to give the best advice to kings.
~ Robert Herrick
We may give advice, but not the sense to use it.
~ Unknown
We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice.
~ Arthur Helps
Most of us ask for advice when we know the answer but we want a different one.
~ Ivern Ball
How is it possible to expect mankind to take advice when they will not so much as take warning?
~ Jonathan Swift
No vice is so bad as advice.
~ Marie Dressler
Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married. Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. He that has no children brings them up well.
~ Germaine Greer
Fools need advice most, but wise men only are the better for it.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Never give advice in a crowd.
~ Pope Paul VI
To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.
~ Wilson Mizner
Behold, ye are all children of Israel; give here your advice and counsel.
~ Bible
I give myself sometimes admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.
~ Unknown
Whatever your advice, make it brief.
~ Horace
When the rabbit has escaped, comes advice.
~ Proverb
Never give advice - sell it.
~ Unknown
Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.
~ Unknown
Nothing is given so profusely as advice.
~ Francois La Rochefoucauld
The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
~ Francois La Rochefoucauld
Ask a woman's advice, and whatever she advises, Do the very reverse and you're sure to be wise.
~ Thomas More
Good advice is beyond all price.
~ Proverb
When in doubt give advice.
~ Unknown
He had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person.
~ Mark Twain