Profanity Quotes Page 2

If I profane with my unworthiest hand This holy shrine, the gentle fine is this: My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.

Be advised what thou dost discourse of, and what thou maintainest whether touching religion, state, or vanity; for if thou err in the first, thou shalt be accounted profane; if in the second, dangerous; if in the third, indiscreet and foolish.

Profanity is the parlance of the fool.

Why curse when there is such a magnificent language with which to discourse?

When we make our art a practice, when we make our workspace sacred and enter it daily with respect and high intention, then we elevate our actions (even if they're taking place within the profane arena of commerce) beyond ego and above gimme-gimme ambition.

I certainly don't walk around my home or being with my family and just using profane language all the time, but on stage, it's a constant.

We only speak two languages here: English and profanity.

There are not two histories, one profane and one sacred, 'juxtaposed' or 'closely linked.' Rather there is only one human destiny.

Scriptures - The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.

To me [Christianity] was all nonsense based on that profane compilation of fables called the Bible.

[T]ruth is considered profane, and only illusion is sacred

Words are a form of personal expression.

They differentiate us as well as fingerprints do. They reflect what kind of person we are.

With today's movies, if we took out all the bad language, we'd go back to silent films.

Unless your sexuality rises and reaches to love it is mundane, it has nothing sacred about it. When your sex becomes love, then it is entering into a totally different dimension - the dimension of the mysterious and the miraculous. Now it is becoming religious, sacred, it is no longer profane.

Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.

... not only dowomen sufferindignities in daily life, but the literature of the world proclaims their inferiority and divinely decreed subjection in all history, sacred and profane, in science, philosophy, poetry, and song.

Conversations I have had with school principals and students lead me to the same conclusion-that...there is an evil and growing habit of profanity and the use of foul and filthy language.

I don't trust people who don't use profanity.

For with G. D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to speak profanely) to be present with the Lord.

We should never lower our dignity by lowering our language.

Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed.

Profanity is filthiness. A person is known as much by his language as he is by the company he keeps...Filthiness in any form is degrading and soul-destroying and should be avoided.

There is nothing like the occasional outburst of profanity to calm jangled nerves.

Dancing serves no necessary use, no profitable, laudable, or pious end at all.

It is only from the inbred pravity, vanity, wantonness, incontinency, pride, profaneness, or madness of man's depraved nature.

I do not believe in God, but I believe God is man’s greatest idea.

Those incapable of religious feeling or those (like hard-core gay activists) who profane sacred ground do not have the imagination to educate the young. … Until the left comes to its senses about the cultural power of religion, the right will continue to broaden its appeal.

Let us swear while we may, for in heaven it will not be allowed

Talk in order that I may see you.

Avoid the profane novelty of words, St.

Paul says (I Timothy 6:20) ... For if novelty is to be avoided, antiquity is to be held tight to; and if novelty is profane, antiquity is sacred.

I believe that the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things, so that all our thoughts shall be tinged with triviality.

It is certain, indeed, that the sacred writers were apt to make great allowances for people with empty stomachs, and though I am well aware that the present profane ones think this very reprehensible, I venture to agree with the sacred writers.

Here's what I'm going to have to say to all of you.

If some of you have demons in your head who talk to you in profanity or whatever, don't let your demon shoot down your rock music, don't let your demon keep you off the joy bus. So like I say, Rock music pays off.

The English language is like London: proudly barbaric yet deeply civilised, too, common yet royal, vulgar yet processional, sacred yet profane.

There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.

Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman.

It is incumbent upon us to understand our greatness and believe in it so that we do not cheapen and profane ourselves.

On the air, it's as if somebody draws a heavy drape to block any bias.

I don't even feel it inside. It's the same curtain that keeps you from swearing. I've known broadcasters who can't get one sentence out in normal conversation without being profane, and yet, they can go on the air and talk for three hours and never slip once.