Famous quotes containing the words dead, ball and/or foul:
“I love man-kind, but I hate the institutions of the dead unkind. Men execute nothing so faithfully as the wills of the dead, to the last codicil and letter. They rule this world, and the living are but their executors. Such foundation too have our lectures and our sermons, commonly.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“When Adam delved and Eve span,
Who was then the gentleman?”
—John Ball (hanged 1381)
“These days are dangerous;
Virtue is choked with foul ambition,
And charity chased hence by rancors hand.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
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