Counsel Quotes · Page 2

“The fiend gives the more friendly counsel.”

— William Shakespeare

Wisdom ruleth in counsel -- so do riches.

— Lancelot Andrewes

That grief is light which can take counsel.

— Anonymous

Evil counsel travels fast.

— Sophocles

I never take counsel of my fears.

— George S. Patton

“Nature can counsel nothing but crime.”

— Charles Baudelaire

Take not counsel of your fears

— Anonymous

Don't take counsel of your fears or naysayers.

— Colin Powell

The counsel of the dead is not profitable to the living.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

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

— William Kidd

We are only as rich as the things we can do without and the godly power working within us.

— Omar J Calleja

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

— Walter Benjamin

You can be arrested and not charged. You can be arrested and have no right to counsel.

— Harry Belafonte

Where's the man who counsel can bestow, still pleased to teach, and yet not proud to know.

— Alexander Pope

A wise man seeks much counsel...a fool listens to all of it.

— Larry Burkett

“No counsel is more sincere than that given on ships which are in danger.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

We've got to pass legislation which will allow people to have access to competent counsel no matter who they are.

— Kerry Kennedy

It is an honor to join my former colleague in Congress, Jim McCrery, and the very talented team at Capitol Counsel.

— Charles Boustany

As to your families my counsel is, never lay down your authority to a wife or child, but treat them so kindly…

— Brigham Young

I had the opportunity to serve as Senator McConnell's legal counsel in D.C. and it was a phenomenal and transformative experience.

— Daniel Cameron

The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his…

— Ben Jonson

It seems to be a rule of life that the less qualified you are to give counsel, the more counsel you give.

— Margo Kaufman

Reason and emotion counsel and supplement each other. Whoever heeds only the one, and puts aside the other, recklessly deprives himself of…

— Luc de Clapiers

“It's good to take counsel from the past but not to be ruled by it. Otherwise we end up using today to…

— Richard Paul Evans

I will not give you counsel, saying do this, or do that. For not in doing or contriving, nor in choosing between…

— Anonymous

The general that hearkens to my counsel and acts upon it, will conquer: let such a one be retained in command! The…

— Sun Tzu

I think that one of the primary roles of an attorney, and certainly we try to teach it here to our students,…

— Viet D. Dinh

'You better do a lot of praying' is good counsel for all of the Lord's servants, new or seasoned. It is what…

— Henry B. Eyring

“He would let Violet find her own way and time to tell Elizabeth. In the interim, he would listen and hold her…

— Sarah Mayberry

To be an effective criminal defense counsel, an attorney must be prepared to be demanding, outrageous, irreverent, blasphemous, a rogue, a renegade,…

— Clarence Darrow

Man may have the most excellent judgment in all other matters, and yet go wrong in those which concern himself; because here…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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

— George Sutherland

“Counsel’s sarcasm is inappropriate.”

— Marcia Clark

Two may keep counsel putting one away!

— William Shakespeare

Ask counsel of him who rules himself well.

— Leonardo da Vinci

They say that the best counsel is that of woman.

— Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Light is that grief which counsel can allay.

— Seneca the Younger

When lost, I look for gas stations for counsel.

— Laurel Lea

Where two take counsel there is no lack of plans.

— Silius Italicus

Seek out counsel and be a mentor to people, because then they learn how to be mentors.

— Cathy Engelbert