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Profanity is the effort of a feeble brain to express itself forcibly. -- Spencer W. Kimball
Profanity is the result of a weak mind trying to express itself forcably. -- Randall Dale Adams
I do not use profanity in my novels. My characters all go to church. -- Nicholas Sparks
Profanity is the parlance of the fool. Why curse when there is such a magnificent language with which to discourse? -- Theodore Roosevelt
Profanity is filthiness. A person is known as much by his language as he is by the company he keeps...Filthiness in any form is degrading and soul-destroying and should be avoided. -- Joseph Fielding Smith
I wanted to cut down on the profanity, because I think I'm funnier without sayin' a lot of cuss words. -- Chris Tucker
Language is like music; we rejoice in beauty, range, and quality in both, and we are demeaned by the repetition of a few sour notes. -- Spencer W. Kimball
No parent can consistently teach faith in Christ who profanes the name of Deity. Profanity is never heard in the well-ordered home. Swearing is a vice that bespeaks a low standard of breeding. Blasphemous exclamations drive out all spirit of reverence. -- David O. McKay
In our time the blasphemies are threadbare. Pessimism is now patently, as it always was essentially, more commonplace than piety. Profanity is now more than an affectation - it is a convention. The curse against God is Exercise I in the primer of minor poetry. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Profanity is merely an expression of one's emotions -- Alanis Morissette
To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise. -- Alexander Pope
All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity. -- Gordie Howe
For a woman to consider a financial question was shuddered over as a profanity. -- Victoria Woodhull
It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme. -- William Cowper
I want all this loud profanity in the street stopped. I want people to think about choices. -- Bill Cosby
None so nearly disposed to scoffing at religion as those who have accustomed themselves to swear on trifling occasions. -- John Tillotson
Most people who commit a sin count on some personal benefit to be derived therefrom, but profanity has not even this excuse. -- Hosea Ballou
I've started to think that maybe I wouldn't mind passing my demented genius on to some small thing who can set fire and breathe profanity. -- Marilyn Manson
The devil tempts men through their ambition, their cupidity, or their appetite, until he comes to the profane swearer, whom he clutches without any reward. -- Horace Mann
The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it. -- George Washington
Our children are angry. The profanity is out in the street. It's on the buses and in the subway. Our children are trying to tell us something, and we are not listening. -- Bill Cosby
Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman, I care not what his stamp may be in society; I care not what clothes he wears, or what culture he boasts. -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
What I fear from these reports is that the prevalent use of foul language has become an acceptable pattern in the schools, probably due in large part to the influence of TV and the general permissiveness in our society. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred. -- Ernest Hemingway
Every one knows the veneration which was paid by the Jews to a name so great, wonderful, and holy. They would not let it enter even into their religious discourses. What can we then think of those who make use of so tremendous a name, in the ordinary expression of their anger, mirth, and most impertinent passions? -- Joseph Addison
I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit. -- Mel Brooks
We only speak two languages here: English and profanity. -- Kevin Constantine
American professional athletes are bilingual; they speak English and profanity. -- Gordie Howe
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer. -- Mark Twain
Never use a big word when a little filthy one will do. -- Johnny Carson
Under certain circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer. -- Mark Twain
I had three rules for my players: No profanity. Don't criticize a teammate. Never be late. -- John Wooden
There are in life a few moments so beautiful,that even words are a sort of profanity. -- Diana Palmer
I love Twitter, but some people use profanity so much that at some point it's like saying, 'Pass the salt.' -- Bill Cosby
I've never used one word of profanity in front of my wife, or my daughter, or my granddaughter... or anybody else's wife. -- Tommy Lasorda
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
I knew the profanity used up and down my street would not go over the air... So I trained myself to say 'Holy Cow' instead. -- Harry Caray
A wartime C.E.O. may not delegate. They make every decision based on the next product release. They may use a lot of profanity. -- Ben Horowitz
Wal-Mart went on a rampage years ago insisting all music they carry be censored of all profanity and 'clean' versions be made for them to carry. -- Trent Reznor
War's a profanity because, let's face it, you've got two opposing sides trying to settle their differences by killing as many of each other as they can. -- Norman Schwarzkopf
There was certainly less profanity in the Godfather than in the Sopranos. There was a kind of respect. It's not that I totally agreed with it, but it was a great piece of art. -- Danny Aiello
I'm always trying to reach a transcendent point, a romantic point, but reach it in a really unconventional way, a really profane way. To get to that romantic, touching, heartbreaking place, but through a lot of acts of profanity. -- Chuck Palahniuk
Now, Richard Pryor was unique. Many misunderstood his humor. He lit up the hallway, but they didn't understand his use of profanity. He didn't use it just to be using it; he used it in the context of his satire. -- Bill Cosby
I'm not like a champion of profanity. I write what I hear, and the characters that I write, that's how they talk. That's how I talk a lot of the time. So I'm not trying to advance a social cause. -- Stephen Adly Guirgis
We don't do drugs, drink or use profanity. Instead we instill morals and values in my boys by raising them with a love of God and a love and respect for themselves and all people. I believe they will have a chance. -- Anita Baker
I'm always fighting with profanity and Christian comedy. I'm telling you, it's always a fight. Because my father said to me, he said, 'Well, Kym, I feel like comics and people that use profanity, you have a lack of vocabulary, actually, a whole lot.' -- Kym Whitley
Like the Earth, the Web is a less appealing place than it used to be. If I want attitude and arguing and meanness and profanity and wrong information screamed at me as gospel, I'll get in a time machine and spend Christmas with my family in 1977. -- J. R. Moehringer
Dollywood is a family park, and all families are welcome. We do have a policy about profanity or controversial messages on clothing or signs. It is to protect the individual wearing or carrying them, as well as to keep down fights or problems by those opposed to it at the park. -- Dolly Parton
I think the part of media that romanticizes criminal behavior, things that a person will say against women, profanity, being gangster, having multiple children with multiple men and women and not wanting to is prevalent. When you look at the majority of shows on television they placate that kind of behavior. -- Bill Cosby
Do you want me crucified for my profanity? -- Ozzy Osbourne
I don't trust people who don't use profanity. -- Mark Oliver Everett
However common irreverence and profanity become, they are nonetheless wrong -- Boyd K. Packer
1. Be on time. 2. Never criticize a teammate. 3. Never use profanity. -- John Wooden
The habitual use of profanity is not progressive, just unimaginative. -- Ron Brackin
I've always liked Richard Pryor. I've always responded to rhythmic profanity. -- David Rees
I shall never use profanity except in discussing house rent and taxes. -- Mark Twain
I do not believe profanity has anything to do with Christianity, thank you. -- Dee Snider
There is nothing like the occasional outburst of profanity to calm jangled nerves. -- Kirby Larson
I find it very difficult to live through the censorship of profanity on television. -- Rod Serling
I'm not against profanity. It's an important part of the language when used properly. -- Robert Klein
The asynarte city; two rhythms unconnected, profanity, holiness, and out of that strange bed, art. -- Jeanette Winterson
My God, look at the words people use today. They use profanity like it's nothing. Christ almighty. -- Tommy Lasorda
The nature and extent of profanity and vulgarity in our society is a measure of its deterioration. -- Dallin H. Oaks
...if you've never been cussed out by a Siamese, you don't know what profanity is all about! -- Lilian Jackson Braun
profanity and obscenity entitle people who don't want unpleasant information to close their ears and eyes to you. -- Kurt Vonnegut
I'd heard that Lenny Bruce used a lot of profanity and obscenities in his act, and I was curious. -- Sheldon Harnick
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
One of the cardinal sins in our country is profanity -- the taking of the name of the Lord in vain. -- Ezra Taft Benson
A lie is profanity. A lie is the worst thing in the world. Art is the ability to tell the truth. -- Richard Pryor
I've never used one word of profanity in front of my wife, or my daughter, or my granddaughter or anybody else's wife. -- Tommy Lasorda
Aping urbanity, Oozing with vanity, Plump as a manatee, Faking humanity, Intellectual inanity, Journalistic calamity, Fox Noise insanity, You're a profanity, Hannity -- John Cleese
The problem with TV today is not just too much sex, violence, profanity, dishonesty or crude behavior. It is too much TV, period. -- Randall Wright
I use profanity because I like profanity, but I'm not vulgar. Big difference. I love profanity because I really think profanity is cool. -- Godfrey
Oops, I thought. Oops is an all-purpose word standing for every bit of profanity, blasphemy, and pornographic and scatological execration I could think of. -- Orson Scott Card
I'm about being funny. If I can make a joke using profanity, I will. But for the most part, that can get awfully old and boring. -- Howard Stern
[Barton ] Gellman printed a great anecdote: he showed two Google engineers a slide that showed how the NSA was doing this, and the engineers "exploded in profanity." -- Edward Snowden
I love profanity, but I think if it's used too much, it just sounds a little trashy. I think it's more effective when it's dropped intelligently. I like intelligent profanity. -- Katie Aselton
Okay, seriously, I dont know if this is true or not, but I heard people who use profanity are trying to compensate for their lack of you know... size" -Tuck -- Simone Elkeles
I love profanity, but I think if its used too much, it just sounds a little trashy. I think its more effective when its dropped intelligently. I like intelligent profanity. -- Katie Aselton
Conversations I have had with school principals and students lead me to the same conclusion-that...there is an evil and growing habit of profanity and the use of foul and filthy language. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity, except in America, has not gone beyond a limited technology of perdition. -- George Bernard Shaw
The daily lesson of slum life, visualised, reiterated, of low standards, vile living, obscenity, profanity, impurity, is bound tobe dwarfing and debasing to the children who are in the midst of it. -- Albion Fellows Bacon
We will never know if any other president approached Nixon in paranoia, profanity or potential criminality, since only his conversations were captured, subpoenaed and ultimately released on the front pages of newspapers. -- Nancy Gibbs
I would not tolerate profanity from anyone, anytime. I'd blow the whistle, pull you from the court and put you on the bench and talk to you before I would put you back in. -- John Wooden
This is a bawdy tale. Herein you will find gratuitous shagging, murder, spanking, maiming, treason, and heretofore unexplored heights of vulgarity and profanity, as well as non-traditional gramar, split infinitives, and the odd wank. -- Christopher Moore

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