Confound Quotes

Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.

The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.

Tell the truth, and so puzzle and confound your adversaries.

Your dips an falls do not confound me, half as much as your heights astound me.

The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the difference between good and evil; and the task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility, and evil with activity.

When workmen strive to do better than well, they do confound their skill in covetousness.

Lord, confound this surly sister, blight her brow with blotch and blister, cramp her larynx, lung and liver, in her guts a galling give her.

A full-dressed ecclesiastic is a sort of go-cart of divinity;

an ethical automaton. A clerical prig is, in general, a very dangerous as well as contemptible character. The utmost that those who thus habitually confound their opinions and sentiments with the outside coverings of their bodies can aspire to, is a negative and neutral character, like wax-work figures, where the dress is done as much to the life as the man, and where both are respectable pieces of pasteboard, or harmless compositions of fleecy hosiery.

The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.

Tell the truth so as to puzzle and confound your adversaries.

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

Working together during the past three years, we have confounded the skeptics and the cynics. We've shown that here in Virginia, Democrats and Republicans can come together, put politics aside, and make tough decisions when times demand it.

As long as you have life and breath, believe.

Believe for those who cannot. Believe even if you have stopped believing. Believe for the sake of the dead, for love, to keep your heart beating, believe. Never give up, never despair, let no mystery confound you into the conclusion that mystery cannot be yours.

All successful people these days seem to be neurotic.

Perhaps we should stop being sorry for them and start being sorry for me - for being so confounded normal.

You see, my ambition was not to confound the engineering world but simply to create a beautiful piece of art.

A god implants in mortal guilt whenever he wants utterly to confound a house.

Confound not faith and feeling together.

They are distinct. Faith is ours to exercise. Believe, believe. Let your faith take hold of the blessing, and it is yours by faith. Your feelings have nothing to do with this faith.