Foul Quotes
251 Foul quotes by 198 unique authors
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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…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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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…
— Zig Ziglar
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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…
— William Butler Yeats
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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
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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…
— Symeon the New Theologian
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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…
— Gregory Palamas
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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…
— Audrey Meadows
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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…
— Henry David Thoreau
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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…
— Carole Lombard
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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.…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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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…
— Edward Abbey
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The president of General Motors was in a foul humor.
— Arthur Hailey
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Murder most foul, as in the best it it; But this most foul, strange, and unnatural.
— William Shakespeare
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Ye towers of Julius, London's lasting shame, With many a foul and midnight murder fed.
— Thomas Gray
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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…
— John Quincy Adams
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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,…
— Pat Riley
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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…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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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…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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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…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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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…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Gossip is the foul smell from the Devil's backside.
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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Men ought to know that from nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations. And by…
— Hippocrates
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Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the…
— Alfred the Great
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The game's finest mistakes were perpetrated by Djimi Traore, who interrupted his general competence with one air shot, one slice over his own head and…
— Phil Cornwell
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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…
— Eusebius
Who Wrote These Foul Quotes
198 authors contributed a total of 251 Foul Quotes, led by these top contributors: