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Quotes About Foul

From this foul drain the greatest stream of human industry flows out to fertilize the whole world. From this filthy sewer gold flows. Here humanity attains its most complete development and its most brutish, here civilization works its miracles and civilized man is turned almost into a savage.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
Friendship: A ship big enough for two in fair weather, but only one in foul.
~ Ambrose Bierce
FRIENDSHIP, n. A ship big enough to carry two in fair weather, but only one in foul. The sea was calm and the sky was blue; Merrily, merrily sailed we two. (High barometer maketh glad.) On the tipsy ship, with a dreadful shout, The tempest descended and we fell out. (O the walking is nasty bad!) Armit Huff Bettle
~ Ambrose Bierce
Empty-brained triflers who have never tried to think, who take their creed as they take their fashions, speak of atheism as the outcome of foul life and vicious desires.
~ Annie Besant
Well, I tried to play defense. But when they did call a foul on Shaq, I tried to make sure they called a foul.
~ Vlade Divac
You fouled a guy who needs to be fouled. If he's going to the basket, you don't give a knick-knack foul and then argue with the ref. You foul him so he knows, so the next guy coming behind him knows, so his team knows you can't go in the lane.
~ John Salley
If someone makes contact with you, it is a foul, and you are going to go down.
~ Kieran Trippier
In this day and age, in modern goalkeeping, if you come out and you catch the ball and you get smacked, you're going to get the foul.
~ Bruce Grobbelaar
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
Bob Allison fouled one, took two balls, swung and missed, swung and missed, and winter descended on the northlands.
~ Roger Angell
The Mouser glared at the old man where he sat perched on the stool like some ungainly plucked foul.
~ Fritz Leiber
For if a priest be foul, on whom we trust, No wonder is a common man should rust -The Prologue of Chaucers Canterbury Tales-
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
that first he wrought and afterward he taught. From the Gospel he took these words, and this metaphor he added likewise thereunto, that if gold rust, what shall iron do? For if a Priest, upon whom we trust, be foul, no wonder a layman may yield to lust.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
For if a priest be foul, on whom we truste, No wonder is a lewed man to ruste.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
If you hit me, I'm gonna try to shoot the ball and get two free throws.
~ Lou Williams
The key, Deschamps said, is to maintain self-control and to know when it's okay to foul and when you are "too far up the referee's nose" to get away with it. "It's something you feel. It's a feeling. It's a form of intelligence.
~ Sam Walker
It is unholy because it is heretic. It is foul. It is abominable to need something so badly that you cannot picture living without it. It is a contradiction to the condition of mankind.
~ Shirley Jackson
So, a flop is basically tricking the referee into thinking somebody fouled you or maybe elbowed you in the face.
~ Baron Davis
It's up to the referee to decide what is and isn't a foul.
~ Giorgio Chiellini
Self-love is the foulest of all foul feeders, and will defile that it may devour.
~ George MacDonald
Well, I tapped into maybe arguably the worst rule in basketball. I wish they would just take it out or amend it greatly. It's a terrible rule, block or charge. I shouldn't be able to stand there and it's a foul. Come on!
~ Rex Chapman
belching out a stinking cloud from its hindquarters.
~ Erin Hunter
Empty-brained triflers who have never tried to think, who take their creed as they take their fashions, speak of atheism as the outcome of foul life and vicious desires.
~ besant annie iv
FRIENDSHIP, n. A ship big enough to carry two in fair weather, but only one in foul.
~ bierce ambrose iv