Confounds Quotes
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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.
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More Confounds Quotes
Enforced uniformity confounds civil and religious liberty and denies the principles of Christianity and civility. No man shall be required to worship or maintain a worship against his will.
roger williams— As quoted in The Great Quotations on Religious Freedom (1991) edited by Albert J. Menendez and Edd Doerr
Love is the tyrant of the heart; it darkens Reason, confounds discretion; deaf to Counsel It runs a headlong course to desperate madness.
— Act III, sc. iii.
Our world is not an optimal place, fine tuned by omnipotent forces of selection. It is a quirky mass of imperfections, working well enough (often admirably); a jury-rigged set of adaptations built of curious parts made available by past histories in different contexts. […] A world optimally adapted to current environments is a world without history, and a world without history might have been created as we find it. History matters; it confounds perfection and proves that current life transformed its own past.
stephen jay gould— "Only His Wings Remained", p. 54
The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness, And in the taste confounds the appetite.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (1597), Act II, scene 6, line 11.
Love is the tyrant of the heart; it darkens Reason, confounds discretion; deaf to Counsel It runs a headlong course to desperate madness.
— Act III, sc. iii.
Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time ; effaces all memory of a beginning , all fear of an end : we fancy that we have always possessed what we love, so difficult is it to imagine how we could have lived without it.
— As translated by Sylvia Raphael (1998)
I dimly guess what Time in mists confounds; Yet ever and anon a trumpet sounds From the hid battlements of Eternity; Those shaken mists a space unsettle, then Round the half-glimpsed turrets slowly wash again.
Francis Thompson— Francis Thompson, Hound of Heaven, line 143.
God confounds the hearts and eyes of unbelievers.
— Original: ?
— The Qur'an (?), Sura 6:110
I to the world am like a drop of water That in the Ocean seeks another drop, Who, falling there to find his fellow forth, (Unseen, inquisitive) confounds himself.
— Antipholus of Syracuse, scene ii
Love is the tyrant of the heart; it darkens reason, confounds discretion. Deaf to counsel, it runs a headlong course to desperate madness.
John Ford— The Lover's Melancholy (licensed 24 November 1628; printed 1629), Act III, scene 3, line 105.
