Counsel Quotes

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

I think there's a lot to be said for keeping your own counsel.

Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.

To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this treasure house, the Bible?

The special counsel has not advised Mr. Rove that he is a target of the investigation and affirmed that he has made no decision concerning charges.

I have only one counsel for you - be master.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

The attractive idea that we can now have a parliament of man with authority to control the conduct of nations by legislation or an international police force with power to enforce national conformity to rules of right conduct is a counsel of perfection.

It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers.

Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel.

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 you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!

They haul you up there for, you know, week after week in this kind of star chamber proceeding. Then at the end of it they say, well, we found nothing, but now it's time for special counsel.

If, amid the multitude of contending counsel, you have hesitated and doubted; if, when a great measure suggested itself, you have shrunk from the vast responsibility, afraid to go forward lest you should go wrong, what wonder?

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

Instead of taking environmentalism away from the left, conservatives condemn it as a counsel of doom.

But in its final creation it was not the part of the Father's power to fail as though exhausted. It was not the part of His wisdom to waver in a needful matter through poverty of counsel.

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

The word of God is full of sad and grave counsel, full of the knowledge of God, of examples of virtues, and of correction of vices, of the end of this life, and of the life to come.

'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.

At the request of the special counsel, Mr. Rove will not discuss the substance of his testimony.

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

I got the chance to argue my first case in Supreme Court, a criminal case arising in Alabama that involved the right of a defendant to counsel at a critical stage in a capital case before a trial.

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

Under Medicare right now, I get paid to put a pacemaker in you, but I don't get paid to counsel you about end-of-life care.

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.

To sum up, the position we took was that since we didn't know the internal situation in Iraq nor Saddam Hussein, that our best bet was to take counsel from the people who did know him and who did deal with him.

It is impossible to have a public trial if you can't guarantee the safety of witnesses, judges or defense counsel.