profanity quotes

My approach to newspapers was based on the idea that when you looked at the front page you said: 'Good heavens', when you looked at the middle page you said: 'Holy smoke', and by the time you got to the back pagewell, I'd have to utter a profanity to show how exciting it was.

- Arthur Christiansen
Headlines all my Life, ch.19.

All pro athletes are bilingual. They speak English and profanity.

- Gordie (Gordon) Howe
Dismissing Canadian bilingualism. Quotedby George Gamester in the Toronto Star, 27 May1975.

He took the golden compasses, prepared In God's eternal store, to circumscribe This universe, and all created things: One foot he centred, and the other turned Round through the vast profundity obscure, And said,'Thus far extend, thus far thy bounds This be thy just circumference,O world.'

-John Milton
  Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.7, l.225^31.