Foul Quotes - Page 8

• There is never a deed so foul that something couldn't be said for the guy; that's why there are lawyers.

  Melvin Belli

  Law, Guy, Deeds

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• Ah fair Zenocrate, divine Zenocrate, Fair is too foul an epithet for thee.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Divinity, Divine, Epithet

  'Tamburlaine the Great' (1590) act 5, sc. 5

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• The decisions we make, individually and personally, become the fabric of our lives. That fabric will be beautiful or ugly according to the threads of which it is woven. I wish to say particularly to the young men who are here that you cannot indulge in any unbecoming behavior without injury to the beauty of the fabric of your lives. Immoral acts of any kind will introduce an ugly thread. Dishonesty of any kind will create a blemish. Foul and profane language will rob the pattern of its beauty.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Beautiful, Men, Indulge In

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• You cannot rise about your words. A lot of people use foul, pornographic, filthy, language and you SEE, all of those words paint pictures and they reveal the internal thinking of the person on the inside. YOU cannot RISE (forward, onward upward) above your words.

  Zig Ziglar

  Thinking, People, Use

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• Mock mockers after that That would not lift a hand maybe To help good, wise or great To bar that foul storm out, for we Traffic in mockery.

  William Butler Yeats

  Wise, Hands, Storm

  William Butler Yeats (2001). “The Major Works”, p.110

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• Like a red morn that ever yet betokened,
  Wreck to the seaman, tempest to the field,
  Sorrow to the shepherds, woe unto the birds,
  Gusts and foul flaws to herdmen and to herds.

  William Shakespeare

  Woe Unto, Bird, Sorrow

  William Shakespeare (1843). “The Poems of William Shakspere: With Facts Connected with His Life”, p.42

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• Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lender's books, and defy the foul fiend.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Hands, Feet

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 3, sc. 4, l. [96]

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• Through repentance the filth of our foul actions is washed away. After this, we participate in the Holy Spirit, not automatically, but according to the faith, humility and inner disposition of the repentance in which our soul is engaged. For this reason it is good to repent each day as the act of repentance is unending.

  Symeon the New Theologian

  Christian, Humility, Soul

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• If you put something fragrant on to burning coals, you motivate those who approach to come back again and to stay near, but if instead you put on something with an unpleasant, oppressive smell, you repel them and drive them away. It is the same with the mind. If your attention is occupied with what is holy, you make yourself worthy of being visited by God, since this is the sweet savour which God catches scent of. On the other hand, if you nurture evil, foul and earthly thoughts within you, you remove yourself from God's supervision and unfortunately make yourself worthy of His aversion.

  Gregory Palamas

  Christian, Sweet, Hands

  Saint Gregory Palamas, Christopher Veniamin, Monastery of St. John the Baptist (Essex, England) (2009). “The homilies”, Mount Thabor Pub

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• The foul slime stands for the sloth and vice of man, the decay of humanity; the fragrant flower that springs from it, for the purity and courage which are immortal.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Spring, Flower, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.126, Simon and Schuster

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• Do you laugh in the right places? Then, you’ll get along, in fair weather or foul. Humor is nothing less than a sense of the fitness of things. Something that’s out of proportion, like an inflated ego, should strike you funny, particularly if it’s your own inflated ego. Otherwise you are pathetic and quite hopeless.

  Carole Lombard

  Weather, Laughing, Ego

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• It is from the midst of this putrid sewer that the greatest river of human industry springs up and carries fertility to the whole world. From this foul drain pure gold flows forth.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Spring, Rivers, Gold

  Writing about Manchester in 'Voyage en Angleterre et en Irlande de 1835' 2 July

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• We are kindred all of us, killer and victim, predator and prey, me and the sly coyote, the soaring buzzard, the elegant gopher snake, and trembling cottontail, the foul worms that feed on our entrails; all of them, all of us. Long live diversity, long live the earth!

  Edward Abbey

  Journey, Snakes, Hiking

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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• The public history of all countries, and all ages, is but a sort of mask, richly colored. The interior working of the machinery must be foul.

  John Quincy Adams

  Country, History, Age

  John Quincy Adams (1951). “Diary, 1794-1845: American Diplomacy and Political, Social, and Intellectual Life from Washington to Polk”

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• We measure areas of performance that are often ignored: jumping in pursuit of every rebound even if you don't get it, swatting at every pass, diving for loose balls, letting someone smash into you in order to draw the foul. These 'effort' statistics are also stored on computer. Effort is what ultimately separates journeyman players from impact players. Knowing how well a player executes all these little things is the key to unlocking career-best performances.

  Pat Riley

  Sports, Player, Knowing

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• Conversations I have had with school principals and students lead me to the same conclusion-that...there is an evil and growing habit of profanity and the use of foul and filthy language.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  School, Evil, Use

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• What I fear from these reports is that the prevalent use of foul language has become an acceptable pattern in the schools, probably due in large part to the influence of TV and the general permissiveness in our society.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  School, Use, Patterns

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• Stay out of the gutter in your conversation. Foul talk defiles the man who speaks it... Don't swear. Don't profane. Avoid so-called dirty jokes. Stay away from conversation that is sprinkled with foul and filthy words. You will be happier if you do so, and your example will give strength to others.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Dirty, Men, Giving

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• The stage, the screen, the novel, casual conversation, the street discussion, and too often the fireside intimacies are punctuated with blasphemy, to which may be added, as of the same nature, coarse, ribald jokes, foul stories, and low small talk. Some would have us believe that profanity is a sign of masculinity and emotion maturity.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Believe, Maturity, Stories

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• Gossip is the foul smell from the Devil's backside.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Smell, Gossip, Devil

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Chains”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• O money, money, how blindly thou hast been worshipped, and how stupidly abused! Thou are health and liberty and strength, and he that has thee may rattle his pockets at the foul fiend!

  Charles Lamb

  Money, Liberty, Pockets

  Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon TALFOURD (1850). “Final Memorials of Charles Lamb; consisting chiefly of his Letters not before published, with sketches of some of his companions. By T. N. Talfourd”, p.134

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• Foul jealousy! that turnest love divine to joyless dread, and makest the loving heart with hateful thoughts to languish and to pine.

  Edmund Spenser

  Jealousy, Heart, Hateful

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• Each petty hand
  Can steer a ship becalm'd; but he that will
  Govern and carry her to her ends, must know
  His tides, his currents, how to shift his sails;
  What she will bear in foul, what in fair weathers;
  Where her springs are, her leaks, and how to stop 'em;
  What strands, what shelves, what rocks do threaten her.

  Ben Jonson

  Spring, Hands, Weather

  Ben Jonson (1756). “The alchemist. Catiline, his conspiracy. Bartholomew Fair”, p.188

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• But he alone having reached our deep corruption, he alone having taken upon himself our labors, he alone having suffered the punishments due for our impieties, having recovered us who were not half dead merely, but were already in tombs and sepulchers, and altogether foul and offensive, saves us, both anciently and now, by his beneficent zeal, beyond the expectation of any one, even of ourselves, and imparts liberally of the Father's benefits-he who is the giver of life and light, our great Physician and King and Lord, the Christ of God.

  Eusebius

  Kings, Father, Taken

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• Books for all the world are always foul-smelling books: the smell of small people clings to them.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Book, Reading, Smell

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.233, Modern Library

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