Counsel is happiness. [ Proverb ]
Counsel is no command. [ Proverb ]
Good counsel has no price. [ Mazzini ]
Keep counsel thyself first. [ Proverb ]
Counsel over cups is crazy. [ Proverb ]
Counsel breaks not the head. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Good counsel comes over-night. [ German Proverb ]
Good counsel never comes amiss. [ Proverb ]
Night is the mother of counsel. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Better counsel comes over-night. [ Lessing ]
A fool may give a wise man counsel. [ Proverb ]
Counsel must be followed, not praised. [ Proverb ]
Three may keep counsel if two be away. [ Proverb ]
To the counsel of fools a wooden bell. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Wouldst thou wisely, and with pleasure,
Pass the days of life's short measure,
From the slow one counsel take,
But a tool of him never make;
Ne'er as friend the swift one know,
Nor the constant one as foe. [ Schiller ]
Two may keep counsel, putting one away. [ Proverb ]
By time and counsel do the best we can:
The event is never in the power of man. [ Herrick ]
When the old dog barks he gives counsel. [ Proverb ]
An enemy may chance to give good counsel. [ Proverb ]
It is an ill counsel that hath no escape. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Fools may sometimes give wise men counsel. [ Proverb ]
Two may keep counsel when the third's away. [ William Shakespeare ]
He takes in good counsel like cold porridge. [ Proverb ]
I have only one counsel for you, - Be master. [ Napoleon I ]
There is none so simple but can give counsel. [ Proverb ]
Bosom up my counsel. You'll find it wholesome. [ William Shakespeare ]
The healthful man can give counsel to the sick. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
That grief is light which is capable of counsel. [ Proverb ]
They say that the best counsel is that of woman. [ Calderon ]
None goes to the gallows for giving ill counsel. [ Proverb ]
Good counsel makes a proud man and a fool angry. [ Proverb ]
Counsel is irksome when the matter is past remedy. [ Proverb ]
Prosperity takes no counsel and fears no calamity. [ Proverb ]
Boldness is bad in counsel, but good in execution. [ Lord Bacon ]
Hasty counsels are generally followed by repentance. [ Laberius ]
It is safer to hear and take counsel than to give it. [ Proverb ]
What your glass tells you will not be told by counsel. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Give neither counsel nor salt till you are asked for it. [ Proverb ]
You give notable counsel, but he is a fool that takes it. [ Proverb ]
A fool resents good counsel, but a wise man lays it to heart. [ Confucius ]
Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? [ Bible ]
Let no man value at a little price a virtuous woman's counsel. [ George Chapman ]
When a wise man gives thee better counsel, give me mine again. [ Shakespeare ]
And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch. [ Bible ]
O that men's ears should be to counsel deaf, but not to flattery! [ Shakespeare ]
Counsel is as welcome to him as a shoulder of mutton to a sick horse. [ Proverb ]
The greatest trust between man and man is the trust of giving counsel. [ Bacon ]
In the night is counsel; take a night to think over it; sleep upon it.
He knows enough who knows how to live and how to keep his own counsel. [ French Proverb ]
He is a great necromancer, for he asks counsel of the dead (i.e. books). [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
A woman needs a stronger head than her own for counsel - she should marry. [ Calderon ]
He that would thrive by law, must fee his enemy's counsel as well as his own. [ Proverb ]
The best receipt - best to work and best to take - is the admonition of a friend. [ Bacon ]
When all is done, the help of good counsel is that which setteth business straight. [ Bacon ]
Sell your confidence at a high price, if at all; to be strong, keep your own counsel. [ Dumas, Pere ]
It is ordained in the counsel of God that we must all part from the dearest we possess. [ Feuchtersleben ]
Let no man presume to give advice to others, that has not first given counsel to himself. [ Seneca ]
The tongue of a fool is the key of his counsel, which, in a wise man, wisdom hath in keeping. [ Socrates ]
I will adhere to the counsels of good men, although misfortune and death should be the consequence. [ Cicero ]
Harsh cousels have little or no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil. [ Helvetius ]
Good counsels observed are chains to grace, which neglected, prove halters to strange undutiful children. [ Fuller ]
I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching. [ William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice ]
No evil is felt till it comes, and when it comes no counsel helps. Wisdom is always too early and too late. [ Rückert ]
The first degree of folly is to hold one's self wise, the second to profess it, the third to despise counsel. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Counsel and conversation is a good second education, that improves all the virtues and corrects all the vices. [ Clarendon ]
The heart must be perpetually fortified by wise counsel and high moral principle, or it will inevitably submit to the invasion of the vilest foes. [ Magoon ]
The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade. [ Ben Jonson ]
Good counsel is like unto well-water, that must be drawn up with a pump or bucket; ill counsel is like to conduit-water, which if the cork be but turned runs out alone. [ Bishop Hall ]
Light that a man receiveth by counsel from another is drier and purer than that which cometh from his own understanding and judgment, which is ever in his affections and customs. [ Bacon ]
He that gives good advice builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example builds with the other; but he that gives good admonition and bad example builds with one hand and pulls down with the other. [ Bacon ]
No man is so foolish but he may give another good counsel sometimes, and no man so wise but he may easily err, if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that was taught only by himself had a fool for a master. [ Ben Jonson ]
Give thy friend counsel wisely and charitably, but leave him to his liberty whether he will follow thee or no; and be not angry if thy counsel be rejected, for advice is no empire, and he is not my friend that will be my judge whether I will or no. [ Jeremy Taylor ]
How dear the sure counsel of a present friend, whose heavenly power failing, the lonely one sinks in silence; for earnest thought and resolution, locked within his breast, are slowly ripened; the presence of the loved one soon warms them into being. [ Goethe ]
If thy friends be of better quality than thyself, thou mayest be sure of two things: the first, that they will be more careful to keep thy counsel, because they have more to lose than thou hast; the second, they will esteem thee for thyself, and not for that which thou dost possess. [ Sir W. Raleigh ]
Perfect friendship puts us under the necessity of being virtuous; as it can only be preserved among esteemable persons, it forces us to resemble them; you find in friendship the surety of good counsel, the emulation of good example, sympathy in our griefs, and succor in our distress. [ Mme. de Lambert ]
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 a man's self, and there is no such remedy against flattery of a man's self as the liberty of a friend. [ Bacon ]
Might I give counsel to any young hearer, I would say to him, try to frequent the company of your betters. In books and life is the most wholesome society; learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admire, - they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly. [ Thackeray ]
What delight will it afford to renew the sweet counsel we have taken together, to recount the toils, the combats, and the labor of the way, and to approach, not the house, but the throne of God, in company, in order to join in the symphonies of heavenly voices, and lose ourselves amidst the splendor and fruitions of the beatific vision. [ Robert Hall ]
The mind of the greatest man on earth is not so independent of circumstances as not to feel inconvenienced by the merest buzzing noise about him; it does not need the report of a cannon to disturb his thoughts. The creaking of a vane or a pully is quite enough. Do not wonder that he reasons ill just now; a fly is buzzing by his ear; it is quite enough to unfit him for giving good counsel. [ Pascal ]
If we wish to know the political and moral condition of a state, we must ask what rank women hold in it; their influence embraces the whole of life; a wife! - a mother! - two magical words, comprising the sweetest source of man's felicity; theirs is a reign of beauty, of love, of reason, - always a reign! a man takes counsel with his wife, he obeys his mother; he obeys her long after she has ceased to live; and the ideas which he has received from her become principles stronger even than his passions. [ Aime Martin ]