Quotations on Profanity
"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
"Profaneness is a brutal vice. [The person] who indulges in it is no [gentleperson]." -Edwin Hubbel Chapin
"Most people who commit a sin count on some personal benefit to be derived therefrom, but profanity has not even this excuse." -Hosea Ballou
"A single profane expression betrays a [person's] low breeding." -Joseph Cook
"Of all the dark catalogue of sins there is not one more vile and execrable than profaneness..." -Samuel H. Cox
"From a common custom of swearing [people] easily slide into perjury; therefore, if thou wouldst not be perjured, do not use thyself to swear." -Hierocles
"Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent." - Dionysius of Halicarnassus
"Words are sacred. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones, in the right order, you can nudge the world a little." - Tom Stoppard
"To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise." -Alexander Pope
"Be careful of your words, for they become your thoughts. Be careful of your thoughts, for they become your actions. Be careful of your actions, for they become your character. Be careful of your character, for it becomes your destiny." - Anonymous
"A vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not, so [people] are proved by their speeches whether they be wise or not." - Demosthene
"Such as thy words are, such will thine affections be esteemed; and such as thine affections, will be thy deeds; and such as thy deeds will be thy life." - Socrates
"Rudeness is the weak [person's] imitation of strength." - Eric Hoffer
"Profanity is the last refuge of the truly ignorant." - Anonymous
"By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his [or her] stomach." - Winston Churchill
"Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret." - Ambrose Bierce
"If you wouldn't write it and sign it, don't say it." - Earl Wilson
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