Great men may jest with saints; 'tis wit in them; But, in the less foul profanation. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it. — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
The Refinement of Shame. People are not ashamed to think something foul, but they are ashamed when they think these foul thoughts… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is from the midst of this putrid sewer that the greatest river of human industry springs up and carries fertility to… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Superstition! that horrid incubus which dwelt in darkness, shunning the light, with all its racks, and poison chalices, and foul sleeping draughts,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
American fighters of the Pacific War were not heroes. The desperation of island combat included exchanged barbarities of which no one would… — James Carroll Copy Share Image
I can conceive few human states more enviable than that of the man to whom, panting in the foul laboratory, or watching… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
Morality is a neat cover for foul venom, but it does not alter the fact that the heart is vile, and the… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I just feel like I aint never did nothing foul in the game. My ghetto report card has always been straight A's… — E-40 Copy Share Image
With throbbing veins and burning skin, eyes wild and heavy, thoughts hurried and disordered, he felt as though the light were a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
My loving people, we have been persuaded by some that are careful of our safety, to take heed how we commit ourself… — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
Stay out of the gutter in your conversation. Foul talk defiles the man who speaks it. — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
The individual who cultivates grievances, and who is perpetually exacting explanations of his assumed wrongs, can only be ignored, and left to… — Lilian Whiting Copy Share Image
A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
An unscrupulous contractor regards no basement as too dark, no stable loft too foul, no rear shanty too provisional, no tenement room… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
I am talking about poetry. It's like that line from [John] Yeats: I go back to "where all the ladders start/ In… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
The vulnerability undid him even as the strength brought him pride. And the whole of her brought him love beyond the measuring… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We have ignored cultural literacy in thinking about education We ignore the air we breathe until it is thin or foul. Cultural… — E. D. Hirsch, Jr Copy Share Image
