Top 102 Confound Quotes & Sayings

Rules of property ought to be generally known, and not to be left upon loose notes, which rather serve to confound principles, than to confirm them.

Oh confound that gray-and-scarlet suit!" Sophie said. "I refuse to believe that I was the one that got caught with it!

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

The deal machinations many companies put themselves through, while certainly a bonanza for investment bankers, can confound the typical investor.

Bluster, sputter, question, cavil; but be sure your argument be intricate enough to confound the court.

God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty.

To paraphrase Paul, God often uses the cheesy to confound the sophisticated. He regularly honors those who are confused about his leading as if they have nailed it.

There is not so contemptible a plant or animal that does not confound the most enlarged understanding.

I wish to confound all these people, to create a work of art of a supernatural realism and of a spiritualist naturalism. I wish to prove... that nothing is explained in the mysteries which surround us.

Her theme was happiness: what it was; what it was not; where we might find it, where not; and how, if found, it must be guarded. Never must we confound it with pleasure. Nor think sorrow its exact opposite.

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.

Always zig when people expect you to zag. Confound them!

All we have to do is to go onward and upward, and keep the commandments of our Father and God; and he will confound our enemies.

Many who have never had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confound it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality, however, it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination.

A miracle to confound natural law, a baffling reversal of the inevitable consequences . . . a miracle. . . . An act of high imagination -- daring and lurid and impossible. Yes, a cartoon of the mind.

The separation of the Arabs from the rest of mankind has accustomed them to confound the ideas of stranger and enemy.

Confound you handsome young fellows! You think of having it all your own way in the world. You don't understand women. They don't admire you half so much as you admire yourselves.

O Reader! hast thou eer stood to see The Holly-tree? The eye that contemplates it well perceies Its glossy leaes Ordered by an Intelligence so wise As might confound the Atheist's sophistries.

Human misery universally arises from some error that man admits as true. We confound our fears with the idea feared, and place the evil in the thing seen or believed. Here is a great error, for we never see what we are afraid of.

And don't confound the language of the nation with long-tail'd words in osity and ation.

Vulgar and inactive minds confound familiarity with knowledge, and conceive themselves informed of the whole nature of things, when they are shown their form or told their use.

There is nothing in life so irrational, that good sense and chance may not set it to rights; nothing so rational, that folly and chance may not utterly confound it.

Would thou confound thy enemy, be good thyself.

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

Do not confound noise with fame. The man who is remembered, is not always honored.

The gods confound the man who first found out How to distinguish hours! Confound him, too, Who in this place set up a sun-dial, To cut and hack my days so wretchedly Into small portions.

Success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblances to merit.... They confound the brilliance of the firmament with the star-shaped footprints of a duck in the mud.

However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.

Yes, God uses the uneducated to confound the wise. But that doesn't make ignorance a virtue.

The king is so subtle with his words that he would confound the apostolic religion itself. He will find the weak points of the pope's character and will trip him up to his destruction.

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

The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.

We all find ourselves involved in projects or activities that confound us-when or why did I say I would do this? What was I thinking? I needed a poem for myself that said-pause longer. Think again.

A poet's mission is to make others confound fiction and reality in order to render them, for an hour, mysteriously happy.

Deep down, you see, I long to be arcane, esoteric. I would love to confound people with their own language.

Oh! my friend, when you feel bursting on your lips the vow of eternal love, do not be afraid to yield, but do not confound wine with intoxication; do not think the cup divine because the draft is of celestial flavor; do not be astonished to find it broken and empty in the evening.

When in doubt tell the truth. It will confound your enemies and astound your friends.

If you are trying to aid people in the process of self-discovery, what you have to do is confound them with so many concepts that are contradictory, yet each make complete sense in its own right.

People confound, misuse, interchange thinking and speaking, not realizing that speaking is for communication and thinking is for action.

All life is an experiment. Every important decision is taken with inadequate knowledge by imperfect men and women whom the future will confound. Yet we act nevertheless.

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.

I undertake my scientific research with the confident assumption that the earth follows the laws of nature which God established at creation. ... My studies are performed with the confidence that God will not capriciously confound scientific results by "slipping in" a miracle.

I question if Epicurus and Hume have done mankind a greater service by the looseness of their doctrines than by the purity of their lives. Of such men we may more justly exclaim, than of Caesar, "Confound their virtues, they've undone the world!

It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.

For sudden Joys, like Griefs, confound at first.

Confound these ancestors... They've stolen our best ideas!

If we confound and break up the proposed unfolding the world impresses upon us, we can give ourselves the space to consider what we want to be as a species.

All this [Paul's writing] is nothing better than the jargon of a conjurer who picks up phrases he does not understand to confound the credulous people who come to have their fortune told. Age of Reason

For the most part we stupidly confound one man with another. The dull distinguish only races or nations, or at most classes, but the wise man, individuals.

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

It's bad enough in life to do without something YOU want; but confound it, what gets my goat is not being able to give somebody something you want THEM to have.

What intrigues me is making images that confound and confuse the viewer but that the viewer knows, or suspects, really happened.

Nay, had I pow'r, I should Pour the sweet milk of concord into hell, Uproar the universal peace, confound All unity on earth.

I think referendums are fantastic as long as the question is phrased in a way which is not meant to deliberately confuse or confound people.

Once a teen has been identified as part of the 'target market,' he knows he's done for. The object of the game is to confound the marketers, and keep one's own, authentic culture from showing up at the shopping mall as a prepackaged corporate product.

Clever talk can confound the workings of virtue, just as small impatiences can confound great projects.

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

If you can't convince them [with your logic] then just confound them [with your wit.]

Confound my genteel upbringing! I could not think of any name foul enough to call him.

If you can find a way to confound people's prejudices, restore the humanity of people, individuals, you restore them to life.