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| A resolute heart endures no counsel. Portuguese. | 1 |
| After counsel is fool’s counsel. German. | 2 |
| Counsel after action is like rain after harvest. Danish. | 3 |
| Counsel before action. Dutch. | 4 |
| Counsel in wine seldom prospers. | 5 |
| Counsel is irksome when the matter is past remedy. | 6 |
| Counsel is no command. | 7 |
| Counsel is nothing against love. Italian. | 8 |
| Counsel is to be given by the wise, the remedy by the rich. | 9 |
| Counsel must be followed, not praised. | 10 |
| Counsel never out of date. | 11 |
| Counsel over cups is crazy. | 12 |
| Everybody knows good counsel except him that has need of it. German. | 13 |
| Give neither counsel or salt until you are asked for it. | 14 |
| Good counsel brings good fruit. German. | 15 |
| Good counsel comes over-night. German. | 16 |
| Good counsel has no price. Italian. | 17 |
| Good counsel is better than a great army. German. | 18 |
| Good counsel is better than a thousand hands. German. | 19 |
| Good counsel is no better than bad counsel, if it be not taken in time. Danish. | 20 |
| Good counsel is not to be paid with gold. German. | 21 |
| Good counsel never comes too late. German. | 22 |
| Good counsel will not rot if it be got in dry. Danish. | 23 |
| Good counsel without good fortune is a windmill without wind. German. | 24 |
| Happy counsels flow from sober feasts. Homer. | 25 |
| He takes in good counsel like cold porridge. | 26 |
| He that cannot be counselled cannot be helped. | 27 |
| He that gives bad counsel suffers most by it. Latin. | 28 |
| He that will not be counselled cannot be helped. | 29 |
| If the counsel be good no matter who gave it. | 30 |
| It is easier to give good counsel than to follow it. German. | 31 |
| It is safer to hear and take counsel than to give it. | 32 |
| It is well to take counsel of one’s pillow. | 33 |
| Keep your own counsel. | 34 |
| No man is so foolish but may give another good counsel sometimes. Ben Jonson. | 35 |
| No price is good enough for good counsel. | 36 |
| None goes to the gallows for giving good counsel. | 37 |
| Swift in its march is evil counsel. Sophocles. | 38 |
| Take counsel before it goes ill, lest it go worse. Dutch. | 39 |
| There is none so simple but can give counsel. | 40 |
| Though thou hast never so many counsellors, yet do not forsake the counsel of thy own soul. | 41 |
| Though you are a prudent old man do not despise counsel. Spanish. | 42 |
| Three may keep counsel if two be away. | 43 |
| To give counsel to a fool is like throwing water on a goose. Danish. | 44 |
| Two may keep counsel putting one away. | 45 |
| You give notable counsel but he’s a fool that takes it. | 46 |
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