Counsels Quotes

The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it. - Hesiod

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

The clients I talk to want their legal bills to be smaller, not bigger. Even with the biggest companies around, their general counsels have budgets and they have pressure to lower their outside legal costs. - John Collins

That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life; we receive counsels and comforts, we get under no other condition . . . - Amelia E Barr

Only disaster can follow divided counsels and opposing wills. - Thomas John Barnardo

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat. - Woodrow T. Wilson