The indications are that swearing preceded the development of cursing. That is, expletives, maledictions, exclamations, and imprecations of the immediately explosive or vituperative kind preceded the speechmaking and later rituals involved in the deliberate apportioning of the fate of an enemy. Swearing of the former variety is from the lips only, but the latter is from the heart. Damn it! is not that same as Damn you!
Ashley MontaguToday, while the titular head of the family may still be the father, everyone knows that he is little more than chairman, at most, of the entertainment committee.
Ashley MontaguThe doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.
Ashley MontaguThe family is the basis of society. As the family is, so is the society, and it is human beings who make a family-not the quantity of them, but the quality of them.
Ashley Montagu