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

Don't confound static electricity with ecstatic eccentricity. One will leave your hair up, the other will live up in the air! — Ana Claudia Antunes

Come, tears, confound,' he cried. 'Out, sword, and wound the left breast of Pyramus. Ay, that left breast where his heart doth hop. — Eloisa James

But God does use the foolish things of the world to confound the wise. It doesn't matter who we are really - just who He is. - Miz Opal — Martha Finley

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

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. — William Murray, 1st Earl Of Mansfield

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. — Brigham Young

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. — Cate Blanchett

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

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

And don't confound the language of the nation With long-tailed words in osity and ation. — John Hookham Frere

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. — John Millington Synge

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

I'll betide thee, say I, and may the Gods, or at least the Athenians, confound thee for a vile citizen and a vile third-rate actor! Read the evidence. — Demosthenes

Scatter her enemies, And make them fall; Confound their politics, Frustrate their knavish tricks. — Mahatma Gandhi

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

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

However stupid a fool's words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man. — Nikolai Gogol

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

all paperwork is, pardon my language, Ms Li, pestilential putrefaction designed to confound the real work of society in a quagmire of bullshit? — Kate Griffin

For sudden Joys, like Griefs, confound at first. — Daniel Defoe

May the mysteries that confound you, be unraveled. — Eleesha

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

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

Confound it, it's foolish, Tom — Mark Twain

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

Whoso beset him round
With dismal stories
Do but themselves confound;
His strength the more is. — John Bunyan

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

Confound the subtlety of lawyers with the subtlety of the law. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Always zig when people expect you to zag. Confound them! — Soledad O'Brien

Thought is the toil of the intelligence, revery its voluptuousness. To replace thought with revery is to confound a poison with a food. — Victor Hugo

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

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

Would thou confound thy enemy, be good thyself. — Benjamin Franklin

He knows that his plan will confuse and confound you. And he knows that real rest cannot be found in understanding. Real rest is found in trust. — Paul David Tripp

But I have known many women
many women indeed, and it is in their nature to confound us, Othello. They are all by their natures lovely lunatics. — Christopher Moore

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

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

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

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

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

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

Now, for the love of Love and her soft hours,
Let's not confound the time with conference harsh. — William Shakespeare

It is shallow desires which make a young man bold; strong desires confound him. — Giacomo Casanova

Grammar in learning is like tyranny in government - confound the bitch I'll never be her slave. — John Clare

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