Confounded Quotes
56 quotes by 55 authors
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A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint, will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy.…
— Joseph Addison
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God has appointed two kinds of government in the world, which are distinct in their nature, and ought never to be confounded together; one of…
— Isaac Backus
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At any given time, ninety-nine-point-nine-five per cent of the human race are a confounded nuisance
— Tom Holt
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Africa, amongst the continents, will teach it to you: that God and the Devil are one, the majesty coeternal, not two uncreated but one uncreated,…
— Isak Dinesen
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Evil borders upon good, and vices are confounded with virtues; as the report of good qualities is delightful to a well-disposed mind, so the relation…
— Gerald of Wales
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Though weary, it is not tired: though pressed it is not straightened; though alarmed, it is not confounded; but as a living flame it forces…
— Thomas a Kempis
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I firmly believe this ... that without His concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better, than the builders of Babel: We…
— Benjamin Franklin
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I wanted us to share the sense that the number of wrong moves far exceeds the number of good moves, to share the frightening instability…
— Aleksandar Hemon
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We're all confounded by a lack of time.
— Lou Dobbs
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If a person had delivered up your body to some passer-by, you would certainly be angry. And do you feel no shame in delivering up…
— Epictetus
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What meaning has such meditation? There is no meaning; there is no utility. But in that meditation there is a movement of great ecstasy which…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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In questions of law or of fact conscience is very often confounded with opinion. No man's conscience can tell him the rights of another man;…
— Samuel Johnson
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I'm still confounded by how few female directors there are. I don't get it.
— Stacey Snider
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A nervous excitability, a chronic exaltation of the passion, in which commingle the inferior life of the individual and its exterior manifestations, a state in…
— Kadmi Cohen
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Eventually you're supposed to get so confounded by this whole thing that you just give up completely, and that's when it starts to work. Not…
— Frederick Lenz
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The accidental prescriptions of authority, when time has procured them veneration, are often confounded with the laws of nature, and those rules are supposed coeval…
— Samuel Johnson
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We love kitties, gawd bless their little whiskers, and we don't give a damn whether they or we are superior or inferior! They're confounded pretty,…
— H P Lovecraft
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A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a…
— Ernest Hemingway
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The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.
— Henry Miller
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TiVo and other digital recording devices have confounded advertisers. The ad industry sees the technology as a threat to their product.
— Simon Sinek
Who Wrote These Confounded Quotes
55 authors contributed a total of 56 Confounded Quotes, led by these top contributors: