Sounder Quotes

#1. [O]ur English divines are sounder in it than any in the world, generally: I think because they are more practical, and have had more wounded, tender consciences under cure, and less empty speculation and dispute (336-7).

Richard Baxter

#2. Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Francis Beaumont

#3. Envy is like a fly that passes all the body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores.

Arthur Chapman

#4. When I sound the fairy call, gather here in silent meeting,
Chin to knee on the orchard wall, cooled with dew and cherries eating.
Merry, merry, take a cherry, mine are sounder, mine are rounder,
Mine are sweeter for the eater, when the dews fall, and you'll be fairies all.

Emily Dickinson

#5. The subtleties of mathematics defecate the grossness of our apprehension, and supply the elements of a sounder and severer logic.

William Godwin

#6. I was in California when this journalist made a blanket statement about the fact that she did not think that black men and women had the kind of love relationship that Rebecca and Nathan had in Sounder.

Cicely Tyson

#7. But such occasions of excellence became less and less frequent. As her technique became sounder, [her] sincerity became less necessary.

Thornton Wilder

#8. One lady told me that before she saw 'Sounder' she didn't believe black people could love each other, have deep relationships in the same way as white people.

Cicely Tyson

#9. It can be said of him, when he departed he took a Man's life with him. No sounder piece of British manhood was put together in that eighteenth century of Time.

John Keats

#10. I maintain that many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practice the dull craft of experimental psychology.

Oswald Spengler

#11. The closer you penetrated to the substance of his mind, the sounder it appeared.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#12. We can't do everything with a budget, but we can put the country on much sounder financial footing.

Jeff Sessions

#13. It is a sound principle of finance, and a still sounder principle of government, that those who have the duty of expending the revenue of a country should also be saddled with the responsibility of levying and providing it.

Wilfrid Laurier

#14. There never was a sounder logical maxim of scientific procedure than Ockham's razor: Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem. That is to say; before you try a complicated hypothesis, you should make quite sure that no simplification of it will explain the facts equally well.

Charles Sanders Peirce

#15. Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can only go so far, but faith has no limits.

Blaise Pascal

#16. Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.

Henry David Thoreau

#17. When you hit seventy you sleep sounder, you feel more alive than when you were thirty. Obviously it's healthier to have women on your mind than on your knees.

Maurice Chevalier

#18. Were not cutting the budget simply for the sake of sounder financial management. This is only a first step toward returning power to the states and communities, only a first step toward reordering the relationship between citizen and government.

Ronald Reagan

#19. We are nature's unique experiment to make the rational intelligence prove itself sounder than the reflex. Knowledge is our destiny

Jacob Bronowski

#20. I've always known I wanted to be an actor. It never crossed my mind to be anything else. I think I probably decided for sure when I saw 'Sounder'.

Christopher Judge

#21. A mental habit has been annihilated, but at least the way towards a sounder mental habit is clear. For although we are made of nothing, we are made into something; and since WHAT WE ARE MADE OF does not account for us, we are forced to a more intense concentration upon THE GOD WE ARE MADE BY.

Frank Sheed

#22. The day you realise how fragile your civilisation across the natural forces is, it may be too late to build a sounder one! All realisations must happen today, right now!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#23. Hate always sells well, but for repeat trade and the long pull happiness is sounder merchandise.

Robert A. Heinlein

#24. our judgement of a man would be much sounder were it based on what he dreams rather than on what he thinks.

Victor Hugo

#25. There's no sunset so lovely it couldn't be yet lovelier, no gentle breeze bringing us sleep that couldn't bring a yet sounder sleep.

Fernando Pessoa

#26. The War has been waged with success, although there have been in some instances errors and misfortunes. But the heart of the nation is sounder and its hopes brighter.

Gideon Welles

#27. All government is an evil, but, of the two form's of that evil, democracy or monarchy, the sounder is monarchy; the more able to do its will, democracy.

Benjamin Haydon

#28. With a limited palette, the older painters could do just as well as today what they did was sounder.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

#29. Until those charismatic churches who have poor teaching can supply both spiritual empowerment and sounder teaching, many of them will continue to be only a way station for Christians who need a fresh spiritual experience but who end up taking it elsewhere once they have it.

Craig S. Keener

#30. Whatever the circumstances of your life, the understanding of type can make your perceptions clearer, your judgements sounder, and your life closer to your heart's desire

Isabel Briggs Myers

#31. The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.

E.W. Howe

#32. It is an admitted fact that the ordinary tomtit of commerce has a sounder aesthetic taste than the average female relative in the country.

Hector Hugh Munro

#33. The more slowly trees grow at first, the sounder they are at the core, and I think the same is true of human beings.

Henry David Thoreau

#34. He that drinks all night, and is hanged betimes in the morning, may sleep the sounder all the next day.

William Shakespeare