Quotes About Counsel

A friend can tell you things you don't want to tell yourself.

A word to the wise isn't necessary,it's the stupid ones that need the advice.

It is better to give than receive- especially advice

He had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person

Advice is like castor oil — easy enough to give but dreadful hard to take.

I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

A word to the wise ain't necessary, it's the stupid ones who need advice.

Sometimes advises from others are more difficult to bear with than even slang.

The counsels of old age give light without heat, like the sun in winter.

Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.

Advice is like castor oil, easy to give, but dreadful to take.

I always advise people never to give advice.

A word to the wise ain't necessary -- it's the stupid ones that need the advice.

In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

In the midst of the affliction He counsels, strengthens confirms, nourishes, and favors us.... More over, when we have repented, He instantly remits the sins as well as the punishments. In the same manner parents ought to handle their children.

So blind are we: with our bodily sickness and need we run to God; with the soul's sickness we run from Him, and are unwilling to come back before we are well, exactly as if there could be one God who could help the body, and another God who could help the soul; or as if we would help ourselves in spiritual need, although it really is greater than the bodily need. Such plan and counsel is of the devil.

For since through the sin of Adam we are sunk in blindness, so that we are wholly ignorant of God in all His will and counsel, it is not only foolish but also impossible of ourselves to prepare a light and a way by which to approach God and find out what He would have us do, as He says in the Book of Wisdom (9:13-14): "The thoughts of mortals are fearful and uncertain. For who among men can know what God wants?

If I were emperor, king, or prince in a campaign against the Turk, I would exhort my bishops and priests to stay at home and mind the duties of their office, praying, fasting, saying mass, preaching, and caring for the poor, as not only Holy Scripture, but their own canon law teaches and requires.

Pride only breeds quarrels, but wisdom is found in all those who take advice Proverbs 13:10

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.

To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

For you to ask advice on the rules of love is no better than to ask advice on the rules of madness

I believe marriages would in general be as happy, and often more so, if they were all made by the Lord Chancellor, upon a due consideration of characters and circumstances, without the parties having any choice in the matter

Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married