A counsel or a counselor gives advice, more particularly in legal matters.
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Famous quotes containing the word counsel:
“Where no counsel is, the people fall; but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety.”
—Bible: Hebrew Proverbs, 11:14.
“How the devil am I to prove to my counsel that I don’t know my murderous impulses through C.G. Jung, jealousy through Marcel Proust, Spain through Hemingway ... It’s true, you need never have read these authorities, you can absorb them through your friends, who also live all their experiences second-hand. What an age!”
—Max Frisch (1911–1991)
“Please do not take counsel of women who are so prejudiced that, as I once heard said, they would not allow a male grasshopper to chirp on their lawn; but out of your own great heart, refuse to set an example to such folly.”
—Frances E. Willard (1839–1898)