Nature can counsel nothing but crime.

Take counsel in wine, but resolve afterwards in water.

— Benjamin Franklin

My lord, I have some matter of law relating to the indictment, and I desire counsel to speak to it.

— William Kidd

A woman's counsel is not worth much, but he that despises it is no wiser than he should be

— Horace Smith

The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That's the time to listen to every fear…

— George S. Patton

Counsel with your parents is a privilege at any age.

— Russell M. Nelson

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn…

— Pierre Charron

When you counsel someone, you should appear to be reminding him of something he had forgotten, not of the light he was unable to…

— Baltasar Gracian

The right to be heard would be, in many cases, of little avail if it did not comprehend the right to be heard by…

— George Sutherland

I was fortunate to benefit from Secretary Shultz's advice and counsel when I served as U.S. Ambassador to Japan.

— Bill Hagerty

Few there were who could change his courses by counsel. None by force.

— Anonymous

“You have come and are here met, in this very nick of time, by chance as it may seem. Yet it is not so.…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

He who keeps his own counsel keeps his affairs in his own hands.

— Umar

Over the years, I have created close friendships with many successful men, many of whom I have made a lot of money for through…

— Carol Roth

By definition, a Special Counsel is charged with investigating particular potential crimes, not all potential crimes wherever they may be found.

— William Barr

“Empathy is not listening to someone in order to advise, counsel, reply, refute, fix, judge, solve, change, agree, disagree, or to figure the person…

— Michael Simpson