Swearing Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old swearing quotes, swearing sayings, and swearing proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

Many people today are not only shocked by swearing but also look down on it. Melissa Mohr
Swearwords are offensive, they are vulgar, and they can certainly be overused. They are the most powerful word we have with which to express extreme emotion, whether negative or positive. Melissa Mohr
To put it another way, language is a tool box and swearing is a hammer. You can try to pound a nail into a piece of wood with the handle or your screwdriver, with your wrench, or with your pliers, but it's only your hammer that's perfectly designed for the job. Melissa Mohr
Swearing performs a crucial role in language today, as it did in the past; that alone makes it worthy of serious consideration and study. Melissa Mohr
Profanity is a problem, no matter whether you use it or abhor it. It's a problem because we make it one, because we disagree, not only about its moral, socail, expressive, and aesthetic value, but even about what we exactly mean when we use the term profanity. Michael Adams
Profanity isn't really taboo, though we say it is, and no one seriously attributes low birth rate or crop failure to the God's displeasure at our using the forbidden, magic words. Michael Adams