Pen Quotes

Pens are most dangerous tools, more sharp by odds – Than swords, and cut more keen than whips or rods.

The writer who loses his self-doubt, who gives way as he grows old to a sudden euphoria, to prolixity, should stop writing immediately: the time has come for him to lay aside his pen.

Song is the pen of the soul.

Tom Birch is as brisk as a bee in conversation; but no sooner does he take a pen in his hand, than it becomes a torpedo to him, and benumbs all his faculties.

The pen is mightier than the sword. The case for prescriptions rather than surgery.

Abraham Lincoln his hand and pen; he will be good but god knows When. (Written in a child’s copy book.)

Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword.

Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.

Borders are scratched across the hearts of men, by strangers with a calm, judicial pen, and when the borders bleed we watch with dread the lines of ink along the map turn red.

When I was small and five I found a pencil sharpener alive! He lay in lonely grass Looking for work I bought a pencil for him He ate and ate until all that was Left was a pile of wood dust. It was the happiest pencil sharpener I ever had.