“ For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'. ”
- John Greenleaf Whittier- Copy
- 3K
“ Caesar had perished from the world of men, had not his sword been rescued by his pen. ”
- Henry Vaughan- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Of all sad words of tongue and pen the saddest are these, what might have been. ”
- John Greenleaf Whittier- Copy
- 256
“ Let there be gall enough in thy ink, though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 2.5K
“ I wear my Pen as others do their Sword. To each affronting sot I meet, the word Is Satisfaction: straight to thrusts I go, And pointed satire runs him through and through. ”
- John Oldham- Copy
- 3K
“ I bought a seven dollar pen because I always lose pens and I got sick of not caring. ”
- Mitch Hedberg- Copy
- 1.9K
“ The pen is mightier than the sword, but no match for the accountant. ”
- Jonathan Glancey- Copy
- 1.6K
“ In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style. ”
- Sydney Smith- Copy
- 2.3K
“ We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard. ”
- Voltaire- Copy
- 1.7K
“ Better than honor and glory, and History's iron pen, Was the thought of duty done and the love of his fellow-men. ”
- Richard Watson Gilder- Copy
- 2K
“ And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky, Whereunder crawling coop'd we live and die, Lift not your hands to it for help - for it As impotently moves as you or I. ”
- Omar Khayyam- Copy
- 765
“ We like that a sentence should read as if its author, had he held a plough instead of a pen, could have drawn a furrow deep and straight to the end. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
- 3.3K
“ Now as through this world I ramble, I see lots of funny men, Some rob you with a six gun Some with a fountain pen. ”
- Woody Guthrie- Copy
- 1.3K
“ A programming language is for thinking about programs, not for expressing programs you've already thought of. It should be a pencil, not a pen. ”
- Paul Graham- Copy
- 538
“ I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings. ”
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich- Copy
- 1.9K
“ If unix is the face of the future I wanna go back to quill pens. ”
- Gene Spafford- Copy
- 1.3K
“ I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not afraid of falling into my inkpot. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword. ”
- G. K. Chesterton- Copy
- 2.6K
“ I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get. ”
- Richard Milhous Nixon- Copy
- 1.7K
“ Devise, wit; write, pen; for I am for whole volumes in folio. - Love's Labour 's Lost. Act i. Sc. 2. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 3.5K
“ His nose was as sharp as a pen, and a' babbled of green fields. - King Henry V. Act ii. Sc. 3. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 3.5K
“ I want to rush for 1,000 or 1,500 yards, whichever comes first. ”
- George Rogers- Copy
- 766
“ But till we are built like angels, with hammer and chisel and pen, We will work for ourself and a woman, for ever and ever, Amen. ”
- Rudyard Kipling- Copy
- 3.4K
“ The police are finding more and more excuses to inhibit, prohibit demonstrations, build pens that you can't even see over to put demonstrators in. ”
- Larry Holmes- Copy
- 776
“ You're always hoping for a no-hitter when a guy goes that deep in a ballgame. We figured it'd be Eckstein who would break it up. He's a good little ballplayer. It's hard to corral him. ”
- Dusty Baker- Copy
- 1.4K
“ The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp. ”
- Terry Pratchett- Copy
- 3.4K
“ Tho' we earn our bread, Tom, By the dirty pen, What we can we will be, Honest Englishmen. Do the work that's nearest Though it's dull at whiles, Helping, when we meet them, Lame dogs over stiles. ”
- Charles Kingsley- Copy
- 4K
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