He that will not be counselled cannot be helped.
"He who will not go to heaven needs no preaching" (German).[588] "He that will not hear must feel" (German).[589]
Two heads are better than one.
"Four eyes see more than two" (Spanish);[590] and "More know the pope and a peasant than the pope alone,"[591] as they say in Venice.
Come na to the council unca'd.—Scotch.
"Never give advice unasked" (German).[592]
Every one thinks himself able to advise another.
"Nothing is given so freely as advice" (French).[593] "Of judgment every one has a stock for sale" (Italian).[594]
He that kisseth his wife in the market-place shall have people enough to teach him.
"He who builds according to every man's advice will have a crooked house" (Danish).[595]
He that speers a' opinions comes ill speed.—Scotch.
"If you want to get into the bog ask five fools the way to the wood" (Livonian). "Take help of many, counsel of few" (Danish).[596]
A fool may put something in a wise man's head.
It was a saying of Cato the elder, that wise men learnt more by fools than fools by wise men.
