An aphorism is nothing else but the slightest
QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON SWEARING
Take not God's name in vain; select a time when it will have effect.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914, American author, editor, journalist, "The Devil's Dictionary")
'Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore.
Euripides (BC 480-406, Greek tragic poet)
Grant me some wild expressions, Heavens, or I shall burst.
George Farquhar (c.1677-1707, Irish playwright)
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 (1898-1961, American writer)
Oaths are the fossils of piety.
George Santayana (1863-1952, American philosopher, poet)
A whoreson jackanapes must take me up for swearing; as if I borrowed mine oaths of him and might not spend them at my pleasure. When a gentleman is disposed to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths, ha?
William Shakespeare (1564-1616, British poet, playwright, actor)
It comes to pass oft that a terrible oath, with a swaggering accent sharply twanged off, gives manhood more approbation than ever proof itself would have earned him.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616, British poet, playwright, actor)
Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete: damns have had their day.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816, Anglo-Irish dramatist)
A footman may swear; but he cannot swear like a lord. He can swear as often: but can he swear with equal delicacy, propriety, and judgment?
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745, Anglo-Irish satirist)
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