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Quotes About Counsel

It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
~ Aeschylus
We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.
~ Unknown
Ill Customs & bad Advice are seldom forgotten.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Don't give cherries to pigs or advice to fools.
~ Unknown
Old men are fond of giving advice to console themselves for being no longer in a position to give bad examples.
~ Francois La Rochefoucauld
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.
~ Unknown
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.
~ Hannah Whitall Smith
All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.
~ Alexis Carrel
Good but rarely came from good advice.
~ Lord Byron
A lawyer's time and advice are his stock in trade.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Don't offer me advice; give me money.
~ Spanish proverb
A word to the wise ain't necessary, it's the stupid ones who need the advice.
~ Bill Cosby
It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.
~ Oscar Wilde
Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive.
~ Carolyn Wells
We are not here to condemn anybody but we are liable to guide someone who you think is lost, and doesn't know which way to go.
~ Unknown
When you seek advice, do not withhold any facts from the person whose advice you seek.
~ Unknown
Men give advice; God gives guidance.
~ Leonard Ravenhill
Ask someone else for advice but keep your knowledge to yourself.
~ Unknown
Don't give me advice. I would rather take money than advice.
~ Unknown
Giving advice to the fool is like sowing water in the ocean.
~ Unknown
Giving advice to the ignorant is like sowing the seeds in the desert.
~ Unknown
I always advise people not to act upon the advice that I give them.
~ Unknown
Make yourself a noble man before advising others.
~ Unknown