The pen is mightier than the sword.
Pen Quotes
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.
There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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.
