Foul Quotes

So foul and fair a day I have not seen.
William Shakespeare

I asked a ref if he could give me a technical foul for thinking bad things about him. He said, of course not. I said, well, I think you stink. And he gave me a technical. You can't trust em.
Jim Valvano

Trust, Bad, Thinking

All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and rotten The foul and rotten may come to be transformed into what is rare and valuable, and the rare and valuable into what is foul and rotten.
Zhuangzi

Beautiful, May, Ugly

In fair weather prepare for foul.
Thomas Fuller

Weather, Fair, Prepare

He that has light within his own clear breast May sit in the centre, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself his own dungeon.
John Milton

May, Enjoy, Thoughts

Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.
Jean Paul

Life, Him, Rainy

Me shooting 40% at the foul line is just God's way to say nobody's perfect.
Shaquille O'Neal

God, Perfect, Nobody

If you foul up, tell the President and correct it fast. Delay only compounds mistakes.
Donald Rumsfeld

Mistakes, Tell, President

One night Roger was in a foul mood and he threw his entire bloody drumset across the stage. The thing only just missed me - I might have been killed.
Freddie Mercury

Night, Might, Mood

There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof.
Jean Paul

Fall, Heaven, Flowers

For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.
John Maynard Keynes

Another, Fair, Ourselves

He's so ugly. When you walked by him, your pants wrinkle. He made fly balls curve foul.
Mickey Rivers

Him, Made, Ugly

It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
Sallust

Means, Fair, Fail

I like to see the difference between good and evil as kind of like the foul line at a baseball game. It's very thin, it's made of something very flimsy like lime, and if you cross it, it really starts to blur where fair becomes foul and foul becomes fair.
Harlan Coben

Good, Evil, Game

To err is human but to really foul up requires a computer.
Dan Rather

Human, Computer, Err

I couldn't feel good about myself hanging out in Armani clothes when my girlfriend can't even pay her heating bill. I'd feel foul and I'd be embarrassed.
Shirley Manson

Good, Her, Girlfriend

I knew it was gonna go out. It was just a question of it being fair or foul. The wind must have carried it 15 feet toward the foul pole. I just stood there and watched. I didn't want to miss seeing it go out.
Carlton Fisk

Wind, Question, Fair

Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.
Jean Anouilh

Hope, Reason, Tragedy

The good thing about 'Have I Got News For You' is it's a compact show but it still gives everyone space to breathe, and everyone always gets a chance to say something if they want to. It's a very difficult show to dominate, and guests who come on and dominate always fall foul.
Jack Dee

Good, Difficult, Everyone

But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import.
Harriet Ann Jacobs

Life, Sad, Girl

For years, my master had done his utmost to pollute my mind with foul images, and to destroy the pure principles inculcated by my grandmother, and the good mistress of my childhood.
Harriet Ann Jacobs

Good, Mind, Done

Sometimes people think that if you're always helping people up and never hit someone with a hard foul, you're automatically a good sport. I don't believe that.
Sue Wicks

Good, Someone, Hard

I'm very concerned for the future of the earth and its amazing creatures. We've got to be careful and make sure we don't foul our own nest.
John Lithgow

Future, Amazing, Earth

In the deregulated realm of US banking and finance, crime does occasionally pay for its foul deeds, not in prison time but by making modest rebates to the victims.
William Greider

Time, Finance, Making

Yes the Jews do many foul things and they distort our foreign policy but not everything that goes bad can be blamed on the Jews.
Tom Metzger

Bad, Everything, Goes

The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony.
John Cheever

Rain, Woman, American

I have quite a foul mouth.
Zosia Mamet

To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.
Paul R. Ehrlich

Human, Computer, Err

When Toots finally could breathe again and the blood returned to his brain, he recalled that he had not passed or been passed by Jackie at any time in the race. Toots never used foul language but he came close that night. Jackie paid.
Audrey Meadows

Time, Brain, Night

Every religion there's something foul going on.
Ja Rule

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