Why is swearing like an old coat?

Answer: Because it is a bad habit.

More Classic Riddles with answers

More Classic Riddles

Why is the best baker most in want of bread?
Why is the largest city in Ireland likely to be the largest city in the world?
Why is the letter F like an incendiary?
Why is the letter F like death?
Why is there no danger of starving in a desert?
Why ought a fisherman to be very wealthy?
Why should doctors attend to window-sashes?
Why should you never iron a 4-leaf clover?
Why was the dog kicked out of the flea circus?
With pointed fangs it sits in wait, With piercing force its doles out fate, Over bloodless victims proclaiming its might, Eternally joining in a single bite. What am I?
With potent, flowery words speak I, Of something common, vulgar, dry; I weave webs of pedantic prose, In effort to befuddle those, Who think I while time away, In lofty things, above all-day The common kind that lingers where Monadic beings live and fare; Practical I may not be, But life, it seems, is full of me! What am I?
Without a bridle, or a saddle, across a thing I ride a-straddle. And those I ride, by help of me, though almost blind, are made to see. What am I?