Home
Idioms
Top 1000 Words
Top 5000 Words


Example sentences for "good counsel"

  • But if men should give her anything toward her help, it must have been, as I told you, good counsel.

  • And that we lose no part thereof, uncle, I pray you proceed now with your good counsel therein.

  • A wise knight he was, bold in enterprise, and of good counsel.

  • And on the morrow they bade the trumpet-blast summon an assembly, and said that they thought it good counsel to hold a conference with that man who came from the north with new doctrine, and to learn what proofs he could bring.

  • Sir Ernault, who is a right wise knight and of good counsel, knowing well the manner and ways of his brother the Count, held his peace for a little while.

  • When all is done, the help of good counsel is that which setteth business straight.

  • Good counsel tendered to fools rather provokes= 20 =than satisfies them.

  • Good counsel is no better than bad counsel, if it is not taken in time.

  • By good counsel, advice of friends, to contemn or dissemble it.

  • Gunnar said to Njal, "I am come to seek a bit of good counsel at thy hands about a knotty point.

  • Of good counsel, and ready to give it, and all that he advised men was sure to be the best for them to do.

  • Good counsel's good at any time, The wise will it receive, Though fools count he commits a crime Who doth good counsel give.

  • Yet observe again, He doth not refuse to give, even to these, good counsel: he bids them labour for the meat that endureth to eternal life.

  • A wild or mad man gives no heed to good counsel; the frenzy of his head shuts all out, and by its force leads him away from men that are wise and sober.

  • Good counsel in the general then is that which goes right towards that which is the End in a general way of consideration; in particular, that which does so towards some particular End.

  • Since then deliberating well is a quality of men possessed of Practical Wisdom, Good Counsel must be "Rightness in respect of what conduces to a given End, of which Practical Wisdom is the true conception.

  • Well, Good Counsel is a Rightness of deliberation, and so the first question must regard the nature and objects of deliberation.

  • Good counsel is required in order that the good things discovered may be applied to action: wherefore command belongs to prudence which takes good counsel.

  • Now admonition is a kind of counsel, which is an act of prudence, for a prudent man is one who is of good counsel (Ethic.

  • Further, it belongs to prudence, "to be of good counsel" (Ethic.

  • Further, "It is by prudence that we are of good counsel," as stated in Ethic.

  • But man can act not only from his own, but also from another's good counsel.

  • Prudence makes us be of good counsel, not as though its immediate act consisted in being of good counsel, but because it perfects the latter act by means of a subordinate virtue, viz.

  • When the king heard his speech, he turned to him and said, "It is grievous to me, O vizier of good counsel.

  • Now she had an eunuch who had come with her from the court of her uncle King Suleiman Shah, and he was intelligent, quickwitted, a man of good counsel.

  • Quoth Ardashir, "O thou Wazir of good counsel, do what cometh to thy mind, and may the Lord direct thy rede aright!

  • Asked Ardashir, "And how then shall we do, O Wazir of good counsel?

  • Good counsel is precious here; and if you know more than your paternoster, now is the time to show it.

  • But you are a pious man of God: I know it well; and your high-born penitent shall certainly receive your good counsel tomorrow, on a fasting heart.

  • Regard for his soul's salvation has moved me to come hither, to speak with him, if possible, or to have conveyed to him a good counsel in writing.

  • For my sin I will mourn, All creatures I will turn; And when I see misdoing men, Good counsel I shall give them, And exhort them to amend.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "good counsel" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    good and; good angel; good cheer and keep thine eyes; good common school education; good confession; good country; good customer; good deed; good family; good graces; good heart; good horse; good knights; good master; good nature; good picture; good reader; good sort; good speech; good teacher; good turns; good unto; good wine; good word; goodly number; goods were