In TV today, you can say I pricked my finger, but you can't say it the other way around. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
profanity and obscenity entitle people who don't want unpleasant information to close their ears and eyes to you. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“the use of profanity for effect to be a practice of the weak-minded” — Terry Fallis Copy Share Image
The nature and extent of profanity and vulgarity in our society is a measure of its deterioration. — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
I'd heard that Lenny Bruce used a lot of profanity and obscenities in his act, and I was curious. — Sheldon Harnick Copy Share Image
I don't even use profanity when I'm angry. I think people expected I'd have written a nice romance or something. — Mary McGarry Morris Copy Share Image
If you're trying to get your point across using profanity, hurtful words, and violence, you're not getting your point across at all.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Conversations I have had with school principals and students lead me to the same conclusion-that...there is an evil and growing habit of… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Nothing is greater, or more fearful sacrilege than to prostitute the great name of God to the petulancy of an idle tongue — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
The Internet is manic. It's very strange. I don't think it's healthy. They should outlaw posting comments! It's a bummer to go… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
The problem with TV today is not just too much sex, violence, profanity, dishonesty or crude behavior. It is too much TV,… — Randall Wright Copy Share Image
I'm about being funny. If I can make a joke using profanity, I will. But for the most part, that can get… — Howard Stern Copy Share Image
I love profanity, but I think if it's used too much, it just sounds a little trashy. I think it's more effective… — Katie Aselton Copy Share Image
What I fear from these reports is that the prevalent use of foul language has become an acceptable pattern in the schools,… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
I have no desire to be hip to the latest black slang and do the stereotypical black thing. I was a Richard… — Franklyn Ajaye Copy Share Image
No parent can consistently teach faith in Christ who profanes the name of Deity. Profanity is never heard in the well-ordered home.… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
Before the first World War women were arrested for smoking cigarettes in public, for using profanity, for appearing on beaches without stockings,… — Geoffrey Perret Copy Share Image
“And then I remember this morning and I wonder if it really happened or if I dreamed it. It was nice. And… — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
Here's what I'm going to have to say to all of you. If some of you have demons in your head who… — Wesley Willis Copy Share Image
Why has marriage failed? In the first place, we raised it to unnatural standards. We tried to make it something permanent, something… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I think the part of media that romanticizes criminal behavior, things that a person will say against women, profanity, being gangster, having… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
The stage, the screen, the novel, casual conversation, the street discussion, and too often the fireside intimacies are punctuated with blasphemy, to… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
“Asscrown," I muttered under my breath as I headed to my next class. I wasn't proud of swearing at a complete stranger,… — Michelle Hodkin Copy Share Image
“I was once reproved by a minister who was driving a poor beast to some meeting-house horse-sheds among the hills of New… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I’m afraid my wife picked up a number of, er, colorful expressions from the Yanks and such,” Frank offered, with a nervous… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“Francie had heard swearing since she had heard words. Obscenity and profanity had no meaning as such among those people. They were… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
