English Proverb or Saying Quotes

Those bureaucrats who are shrewd analysts of human nature, then, and who understand the way rulers operate, will, if they see that the cherished policy of their President is in grave error, tend to keep their mouths shut, and let some other sucker be the messenger of bad news and get shot down.

People like to be consulted.

Here is a thing which the more it is needed the more it is rejected: and this is advice, which is unwillingly heeded by those who most need it, that is to say, by the ignorant.

The only way to deal with the Czar is to be the last to leave the room.

Eleven persons take eleven paths.

An angry man heeds no counsel.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulty.

Get advice, then make your own decision.

Well Mr. President, it isn’t quite as simple as that.

Yes, once—many, many years ago. I thought I had made a wrong decision. Of course, it turned out that I ha been right all along. But I was wrong to have thought I was wrong.

Nine times out of ten your two smartest policy advisors disagree.

A right decision at the wrong time is a wrong decision.

Where great evils lie on all sides, it is very difficult to follow the best counsel.

People ask ... for criticism, but they only want praise.

A man always has two reasons for what he does—a good one and the real one.

To offer change to a Spaniard was like offering a drink to a confirmed alcoholic.

A tree falls the way it leans.

Where no counsel is, the people fall; but in the multitude of counselors there is safety.

Well then, the ayes have it.

Ask for advice but do what you think is best.

It is impossible to please all the world

The president does not like you to take an opposite view at a cabinet meeting, or say anything that can be construed to be mildly not in accord with his thinking.

A man's mind will very generally refuse to make itself up until it be driven and compelled by emergency.

No one wants advice, only corroboration..

Nothing is given so profusely as advice.