(29 quotes found)
“Profanity is the common crutch of the conversational cripple.”
David Keuck
“All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.”
Gordie Howe
“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
“No facts to me are sacred; none are profane.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Not to speak it profanely.”
William Shakespeare
“One word is too often profaned For me to profane it; One feeling too falsely disdain'd For thee to disdain it”
Percy Bysshe Shelley
“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
“There is no sanctuary so holy that money cannot profane it, no fortress so strong that money cannot take it by storm”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, saith the LORD.”
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