Counsel Quotes

I never take counsel of my fears.

— George S. Patton

“Nature can counsel nothing but crime.”

— Charles Baudelaire

Evil counsel travels fast.

— Sophocles

That grief is light which can take counsel.

— Anonymous

Where two take counsel there is no lack of plans.

— Silius Italicus

Light is that grief which counsel can allay.

— Seneca the Younger

When lost, I look for gas stations for counsel.

— Laurel Lea

They say that the best counsel is that of woman.

— Pedro Calderon de la Barca

“Night brings good counsel", my grandmother always told me.”

— Marjane Satrapi

If I could say anything to aspiring writers, it's to keep your own counsel, first and foremost.

— Elizabeth Berg

I have often heard, that it is safer to hear and to take counsel, than to give it.

— Thomas a Kempis

Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.

— J. R. R. Tolkien

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

— Khalil Gibran

“Accept advice from others and be sure they are positive before you set of to execute them.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

I learned very early in my life never to take counsel in my fears.

— George S. Patton

Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.

— Fulton J. Sheen

My grandfather was the general counsel for the Washington Senators, and my dad grew up on Ted Williams' lap.

— Alex Bregman

My counsel advises me that there is no controlling legal authority or case that says there was any violation of law whatsoever.

— Al Gore

“I counsel you, put down in record even your doubts and surmises. Hereafter it may be of interest to you to see…

— Bram Stoker

My parents taught me to react quickly when temptation comes and to say 'No!' instantly and emphatically. I recommend that same counsel…

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

When at a loss about something, go and take counsel by yourself. For in the midst of shouting, the advantageous course is…

— Menander

“O woman’s counsel is so often cold! A woman’s counsel brought us first to woe, Made Adam out of Paradise to go…

— Geoffrey Chaucer

“One of the primary reasons we don’t seek counsel from the wise people around us is that we already know what we…

— Andy Stanley

“Choose your counsel, company and companions wisely: beware seeking wise words of advice from a fool or expecting informed opinions or decisions…

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

To sum up, the position we took was that since we didn't know the internal situation in Iraq nor Saddam Hussein, that…

— Brent Scowcroft

“I honestly believe that the counsel I gave Curt was mainly sound, and I don't think too much of it was holier-than-thou.…

— Wallace Stegner

In due course, following an additional debriefing, the FBI confirmed to me and to my former counsel, Tom Carter, that I was…

— Steven Hatfill

Whoever is wise is apt to suspect and be diffident of himself, and upon that account is willing to "hearken unto counsel";…

— John Balguy

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

— Michael Simpson

Christlike communications are expressions of affection and not anger, truth and not fabrication, compassion and not contention, respect and not ridicule, counsel…

— L. Lionel Kendrick

If Barr wants to keep defending Trump, he should take a page from one of his predecessors, Henry Stanbery, who stepped down…

— Neal Katyal

As far as we were concerned, we were operators, we were administrators. I don't ever recall going to Dean Acheson and asking…

— Paul Hoffman

“The Constitution guarantees the right of the People to have any person they choose assist them in court. This was the first…

— Joseph Befumo

We live in an age disturbed, confused, bewildered, afraid of its own forces, in search not merely of its road but even…

— Woodrow Wilson

“But where's the man, who counsel can bestow, Still pleas'd to teach, and yet not proud to know? Unbias'd, or by favour…

— Alexander Pope

“A prince, therefore, ought always to take counsel, but only when he wishes and not when others wish; he ought rather to…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“DEFENSE COUNSEL And then the defense? THE COURT It’s the Court’s practice to start with the prosecution, and I would ask the…

— Charles M. Sevilla

“There was a certain duality to Hillary’s vast political empire: while it was true that most of the voices inside and outside…

— Jonathan Allen

Ask counsel of him who rules himself well.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Two may keep counsel putting one away!

— William Shakespeare