Best Foul Words
251 Foul quotes by 198 unique authors
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Books for all the world are always foul-smelling books: the smell of small people clings to them.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases…
— Thomas Carlyle
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It has always been cited as an irrepressible symptom of America's vitality that her people, in fair times and foul, believe in themselves and their…
— Alistair Cooke
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Losing is the bane and bugbear of every professional athlete's existence, but in baseball the monster seems to hang closer than in other sports, its…
— Roger Angell
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The rhythm of life is give and take. It is necessary to put things back into the system. To not do that is to foul…
— Frederick Lenz
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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…
— William Greider
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A foul-mouthed oaf, a drunken laborer lying in a drain, a beaten wife with blackened eyes and torn clothes, cannot be made romantic to a…
— Joyce Cary
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I know of no better answer to the foul practices that confront our young people than the teachings of a mother, given in love with…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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If they survive, today's children will inherit a world that our fathers and grandfathers have ravaged, where the seas are acidic cesspools that the whales…
— Mumia Abu-Jamal
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I can conceive few human states more enviable than that of the man to whom, panting in the foul laboratory, or watching for his life…
— Charles Kingsley
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Great men may jest with saints; 'tis wit in them; But, in the less foul profanation.
— William Shakespeare
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I'm in a foul mood as I'm making stupid mistakes... This morning I lost beyond repair a painting with which I had been happy, having…
— Claude Monet
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Don't foul, don't flinch-hit the line hard.
— Theodore Roosevelt
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Examining the actual contents of my crying, I found a quailing sludge emotion, with a foul insecticide taste. If it was a peanut, you would…
— Sandra Newman
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As the eye is the best composer, so light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past…
— John Dryden
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Slavery is the great and foul stain upon the North American Union... A dissolution, at least temporary, of the Union, as now constituted, would now…
— John Quincy Adams
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In fair weather prepare for foul.
— Thomas Fuller
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For reasons that are both fair and foul - but mostly for fair reasons - we have come under the domain of a scientific-management system…
— John Taylor Gatto
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To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.
— Paul R. Ehrlich
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The English (it must be owned) are rather a foul-mouthed nation.
— William Hazlitt
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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…
— John Maynard Keynes
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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…
— Shirley Manson
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One night Roger was in a foul mood and he threw his entire bloody drumset across the stage. The thing only just missed me -…
— Freddie Mercury
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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…
— John Milton
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