Dead Ball Foul

Famous quotes containing the words dead, ball and/or foul:

    “O women, kneeling by your altar-rails long hence,
    When songs I wove for my beloved hide the prayer,
    And smoke from this dead heart drifts through the violet air
    And covers away the smoke of myrrh and frankincense;
    Bend down and pray for all that sin I wove in song....”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “When Adam delved and Eve span,
    Who was then the gentleman?”
    —John Ball (hanged 1381)

    “Hi yih, yippity-yap, merrily I flow,
    O I may be an old foul river but I have plenty of go.”
    —Stevie Smith (1902–1971)