Definition of Console

Console

To cheer in distress or depression; to alleviate the grief and raise the spirits of; to relieve; to comfort; to soothe.

A bracket whose projection is not more than half its height.

Any small bracket; also, a console table.

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Console Quotations

One does nothing who tries to console a despondent person with word. A friend is one who aids with deeds at a critical time when deeds are called for.
Euripides

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.
Benjamin Disraeli

Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.
Blaise Pascal

Little things console us because little things afflict us.
Blaise Pascal

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
Francis Bacon

Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.
Honore De Balzac

Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny.
Marguerite Duras

If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.
Democritus

If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.
Jane Fonda

I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for how people behave - and nothing but laughter to console them with.
John Irving

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
Horace Walpole

It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.
Karl Kraus

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.
Charles Caleb Colton

I've been in plenty of situations where someone I'm dating had more time for a console than me.
Josie Maran

Console game publishing has become more like theatrical release film-making and it is very hard if you are not one of the major publishers, and even for them it is hard unless they are working with major game brands.
Trip Hawkins

Online console gaming will continue to grow at a healthy pace.
Trip Hawkins

The Xbox 360 is the first console that I've ever worked with that actually has development tools that are better for games than what we've had on PC.
John Carmack

I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?
George Byron

A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to this, get out of the profession.
Martin H. Fischer

As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old, inwardly its poetry is much deeper.
Goldwin Smith

The console games, as they come out with this new generation, will have a temporary advantage in price performance, but there are still many things you can do on a PC, more conveniently than you can do on a console machine.
Will Wright

I think that that multiplatform development is what's on the mind of most high-end PC developers now... this is really the first time in the industry's history that we've had console machines that can handle all that PC developers can deliver.
Mike Wilson

The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
Agnes Repplier

We didn't have our online service developed. We had never shipped a console game before as a company. So we were developing a lot of new competencies as a company and assembling a new team.
J Allard

We're going to do something that's really unprecedented in the industry by launching the console in all three major markets for the same holiday. It's never been done before.
J Allard

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Console Translations

console in Afrikaans is troos
console in Dutch is vertroosten, troosten
console in Finnish is lohduttaa
console in French is consolons, consolent, consoler, consolez
console in German is Bedienungsfeld, Bedienungsfeld, Tatstatur
console in Italian is consolare
console in Spanish is consolar

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