Counsell Quotes & Sayings

To the counsell of fooles a woodden bell. — George Herbert

O Lord Jesus Christ, I long to live in your presence, to see your human form and to watch you walking on earth. I do not want to see you through the darkened glass of tradition, nor through the eyes of today's values and prejudices. I want to see you as you were, as you are, and as you always will be. I want to see you as an offence to human pride, as a man of humility, walking amongst the lowliest of men, and yet as the saviour and redeemer of the human race.2 — Michael Counsell

Nature ... has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea. — Democritus

The healthfull man can give counsell to the sick. — George Herbert

We have heard of many people who trusted God too little, but have you ever heard of anyone who trusted Him too much? — Hudson Taylor

Vntroubled night they say giues counsell best. — Edmund Spenser

Then her eyes narrowed. The sun was spilling in the window behind her and Dageus's eyes were golden, dappled with darker flecks. Smoky and sensual, fringed by thick dark lashes, but gold nonetheless.
"What is with your eyes?" she exclaimed. "Is it part of being
a Druid?"
"What color are they?" he asked warily.
"Gold."
He flashed her another unguarded smile. It was like basking in the sun, she thought, tracing her fingers over his beard-shadowed jaw, smiling helplessly back. — Karen Marie Moning

Living this long's not as wonderful as people think. I mean, you get the same amount of youth as everyone else, but a great big extra helping of being very old and deaf and creaky. — Terry Pratchett

A boy is content to be made into a civil man by caning, or any one of a number of other stratagems, but a girl, being disqualified by Nature, as it were, from such physical brutality, must remain forever something of a terra incognita. Don't you think? — Alan Bradley

Of course, politicians always say they're just describing their opponents' positions, even if they are in fact offering absurd caricatures, if not outright lies. — James Surowiecki

We're all the same. We all want the same thing in life. Everybody going around like they know how to sail but there is no captain and we are all only passengers aboard the same sinking ship. — Donal O'Callaghan

If the old dog barke he gives counsell.
[If the old dog barks, he gives counsel.] — George Herbert

You are not here to prove worthiness. You are here to extend the creation, creator, creating that you are. — Esther Hicks

I'll worship animals in the night, I'll lay violent hands on the holiest icons, I'll clutch at all lies, I'll grow bestial in my dreams and will allow myself to be slaughtered like a beast. — Ingeborg Bachmann

What could be worse than having to be seen resorting to your own life? — Gary Lutz

Infielder Craig Counsell played parts of sixteen years in the major leagues despite looking like a librarian, — Tim Kurkjian

I'm from Connecticut. My Mom is an army brat, and my Dad is a navy brat. My childhood was fun. My parents are still together. My childhood was pretty carefree. — Cassie Ventura

I lived just outside of L.A. for a long time. My dad was in the military, so I moved a lot. — Kiersey Clemons

But if one Subject giveth Counsell to another, to do anything contrary to the Lawes, whether that Counsell proceed from evil intention, or from ignorance onely, it is punishable by the Common-wealth; because igorance of the Law, is no good excuse, where every man is bound to take notice of the Lawes to which he is subject. — Thomas Hobbes

If anyone is unhappy, remember that his unhappiness is his own fault ... Nothing else is the cause of anxiety or loss of tranquility except our own opinion. — Epictetus

You're beautifully and wonderfully made. — Demi Lovato

He is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the Dead (i.e. books). — George Herbert

The best hiding spots are not the most hidden; they're merely the least searched. — Chris Pavone