“Gramps always says people only swear because their vocabulary is limited...In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief… — Cherise Sinclair Copy Share Image
When a gentlemen is disposed to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
A wartime C.E.O. may not delegate. They make every decision based on the next product release. They may use a lot of… — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
I don't need new boots I got bluchers back down home. Eff the effing bluchers I'll buy you new adjectival effing elastic… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
Oh, by the way, I tend to use a lot of profanities. I do that for a reason: I like it. — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
To anyone who has followed the practice of using profanity or vulgarity and would like to correct the habit, could I offer… — L. Tom Perry Copy Share Image
There ought to be a room in every house to swear in. It's dangerous to have to repress an emotion like that. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There is nothing like the occasional outburst of profanity to calm jangled nerves. — Kirby Larson Copy Share Image
Profanity is filthiness. A person is known as much by his language as he is by the company he keeps...Filthiness in any… — Joseph Fielding Smith 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
“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
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 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
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
The daily lesson of slum life, visualised, reiterated, of low standards, vile living, obscenity, profanity, impurity, is bound tobe dwarfing and debasing… — Albion Fellows Bacon Copy Share Image
Christianity works while infidelity talks. She feeds the hungry, clothes the naked, visits and cheers the sick, and seeks the lost, while… — Henry Ward Beecher 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
With today's movies, if we took out all the bad language, we'd go back to silent films. — Bob Hope Copy Share Image
How comes it that you curse, Frere Jean? It's only, said the monk, in order to embellish my language. They are the… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
I love Twitter, but some people use profanity so much that at some point it's like saying, 'Pass the salt.' — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image