The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.
Pen Quotes
Quill, n. An implement of torture yielded by a goose and commonly wielded by an ass. This use of the quill is now obsolete, but its modern equivalent, the steel pen, is wielded by the same everlasting Presence.
How much more cruel the pen may be than the sword.
Oh, nature’s noblest gift, my grey goose quill, Slave of my thoughts, obedient to my will, Torn from the parent bird to form a pen, That mighty instrument of little men.
Pen and ink is wit’s plough.
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.)
