He that won't be counseled can't be helped.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Those that won't be counseled can't be helped.
It took me too long to realise that if you go to a marriage counsellor to resolve problems, it's in his interest to keep the marriage going.
They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles.
'Competent counsel' ought to require more than a human being with a law license and a pulse.
And you cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.
Where two take counsel there is no lack of plans.
Even a competent lawyer may not be able to mount an adequate defense against the state, with all its resources, if he has next to nothing for investigation and effectively works for starvation wages.
It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers.
I think there's a lot to be said for keeping your own counsel.
I don't seek the counsel of God. God doesn't speak to me on what I should or shouldn't do.