An aphorism is nothing else but the slightest
QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON PROFANITY
I drink a lot of Diet Coke and belch. I've been known to use the "f" word.
Helena Bonham Carter (1966-, British-born American actress)
Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin (1814-1880, American author, clergyman)
It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
William Cowper (1731-1800, British poet)
Nothing is greater or more fearful sacrilege than to prostitute the great name of God to the petulancy of an idle tongue.
Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667, British churchman, writer)
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 (1732-1799, American President (1st))
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