“I told her to sit down, in some language I shouldn’t have used.  Thank God today wasn’t Mother’s Day.”

- NBA player LeBron James on his mother Gloria telling another player to "leave her baby alone" after both players fell into the front row of seats

 

“Use no reproachful language against anyone, neither curses nor revilings.”

- George Washington, from his "Rules of Civility & Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation"