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
Rock music pays off. Rock music takes me on a joyride. Rock music keeps me off the hell city bus. Rock music… — Wesley Willis 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
Under certain circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
None so nearly disposed to scoffing at religion as those who have accustomed themselves to swear on trifling occasions. — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
“Yes, I went to Catholic school. You’re surprised? You shouldn’t be. My profanity has a certain religious flavor that can only be… — Emma Chase Copy Share Image
I would not tolerate profanity from anyone, anytime. I'd blow the whistle, pull you from the court and put you on the… — John Wooden Copy Share Image
Now, Richard Pryor was unique. Many misunderstood his humor. He lit up the hallway, but they didn't understand his use of profanity.… — Bill Cosby 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
Stay out of the gutter in your conversation. Foul talk defiles the man who speaks it... Don't swear. Don't profane. Avoid so-called… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
In our time the blasphemies are threadbare. Pessimism is now patently, as it always was essentially, more commonplace than piety. Profanity is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I would go to an aunt's house, and she would let me play music, and she had 'The Last Poets' album. At… — Gza Copy Share Image
“As soon as we got back I ran upstairs and told everyone the story, thus telling everyone the alarm code, thus breaking… — Sarah Royal Copy Share Image
“He never once repeated himself and he never used either profanity or obscenity. (I learned later that he saved those for very… — Robert A. Heinlein 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
You will hear people say the C-word. Except, it's a regional language: in British English, c - t has much less of… — Kory Stamper Copy Share Image
The minute I sit down and think 'Okay, this must be KID SAFE!' my Muse develops Tourrette's and goes to lunch with… — Ursula Vernon 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
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
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
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
Oops, I thought. Oops is an all-purpose word standing for every bit of profanity, blasphemy, and pornographic and scatological execration I could… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Wal-Mart went on a rampage years ago insisting all music they carry be censored of all profanity and 'clean' versions be made… — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
“Shit is the tofu of cursing and can be molded to whichever condition the speaker desires. Hot as shit. Windy as shit.… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
We don't do drugs, drink or use profanity. Instead we instill morals and values in my boys by raising them with a… — Anita Baker Copy Share Image
Our children are angry. The profanity is out in the street. It's on the buses and in the subway. Our children are… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
Okay, seriously, I dont know if this is true or not, but I heard people who use profanity are trying to compensate… — Simone Elkeles Copy Share Image
I've started to think that maybe I wouldn't mind passing my demented genius on to some small thing who can set fire… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
“Hate that Warner is probably right, that profanity is probably a failure of the mind, that only idiots need to rely on… — Tahereh Mafi 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
It comes to pass oft that a terrible oath, with a swaggering accent sharply twanged off, gives manhood more approbation than ever… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
A footman may swear; but he cannot swear like a lord. He can swear as often: but can he swear with equal… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“Oooo...He's being a saucy motherfu*ker tonight. He does wrong and I'm the one who gets treated like the whore of Babylon. Fine,… — S.K. Logsdon Copy Share Image
“I sit here thinking it over for several minutes before I come to the conclusion that I have just been word-slapped by… — J.A. Huss Copy Share Image
The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing...is a vice so mean and low, without any temptation, that every man… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman, I care not what his stamp may be in… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin 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 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
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
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
