=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.