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I don't think people should be able to swear whenever they want. I just don't want the federal government making laws about swearing. We should trust people's own instincts about what is appropriate in any given situation.

Let us consider that swearing is a sin of all others peculiarly clamorous, and provocative of Divine judgment.

There is no such thing as too much swearing. Swearing is just a piece of linguistic mechanics. The words in-between are the clever ones.

I really love cursing a lot. But as I get older, I realize it's a little unseemly for women of a certain age.

People ask 'do you make a conscious effort not to swear?' - if you're doing silly stuff you're not tempted to put swearing in. All the comics from my childhood, who were funny without swearing, were the people that influenced me. What I do is quite traditional anyway.

It's a sin to swear.

Whence it is somewhat strange that any men from so mean and silly a practice should expect commendation, or that any should afford regard thereto; the which it is so far from meriting, that indeed contempt and abhorrence are due to it.

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

The thing about sport, any sport, is that swearing is very much part of it.