“ When workmen strive to do better than well, they do confound their skill in covetousness. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other. ”
- Erma Bombeck- Copy
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“ There are many excuses for the person who made the mistake of confounding money and wealth. Like many others they mistook the sign for the thing signified. ”
- Millicent Garrett Fawcett- Copy
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“ What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out. ”
- Agnes Repplier- Copy
- 3.6K
“ There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk. ”
- Drew Barrymore- Copy
- 3.7K
“ As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself. ”
- Leonardo da Vinci- Copy
- 1K
“ 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 popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl. ”
- Ernest Hemingway- Copy
- 1.6K
“ The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity. ”
- Maria Montessori- Copy
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“ For every life and every act consequence of good and evil can be shown and as in time results of many deeds are blended so good and evil in the end become confounded. ”
- T. S. Eliot- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- J. M. Synge- Copy
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“ Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end. ”
- Anne Germain De Stael- Copy
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“ Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce. ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
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“ Tell the truth, and so puzzle and confound your adversaries. ”
- Sir Henry Wotton- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Friedrich Nietzsche- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- William Hazlitt- Copy
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