“ The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion. ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
- 1.7K
“ Every school boy and school girl who has arrived at the age of reflection ought to know something about the history of the art of printing. ”
- Horace Mann- Copy
- 1.6K
“ Transforms old print To zigzag manuscript, and cheats the eyes Of gallery critics by a thousand arts. ”
- William Cowper- Copy
- 252
“ The jour printer with gray head and gaunt jaws works at his case, He turns his quid of tobacco, while his eyes blur with the manuscript. ”
- Walt Whitman- Copy
- 1.6K
“ What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind. ”
- Wendell Phillips- Copy
- 2.2K
“ We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books. ”
- Robert M. Hutchins- Copy
- 241
“ The probability of life originating from accident is comparable to the probability of the unabridged dictionary resulting from an explosion in a printing shop. ”
- Edward Conklin- Copy
- 2.8K
“ The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is. ”
- James M. Barrie- Copy
- 3K
“ If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing press. ”
- Georg C. Lichtenberg- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few. ”
- John Masefield- Copy
- 3.1K
“ The coming of the printing press must have seemed as if it would turn the world upside down in the way it spread and, above all, democratized knowledge. Provided you could pay and read, what was on the shelves in the new bookshops was yours for the taking… ”
- James E. Burke- Copy
- 2.7K
“ Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school: and whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used, and, contrary to the king, his crown and dignity, thou hast built a paper mill. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 230
“ He who first shortened the labor of Copyists by device of Movable Types was disbanding hired armies and cashiering most Kings and Senates, and creating a whole new Democratic world: he had invented the Art of printing. ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
- 3.6K
“ The middle years - the eighteen-seventies, 'eighties, 'nineties - were a time of moral bankruptcy when men stole millions by a stroke of the pen or by the simple expedient of printing tons of worthless paper. ”
- Frank Yerby- Copy
- 3.6K
“ We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed. ”
- Lawrence Clark Powell- Copy
- 894
“ The most refined skills of color printing, the intricate techniques of wide-angle photography, provide us pictures of trivia bigger and more real than life. We forget that we see trivia and notice only that the reproduction is so good. Man fulfils his dream and by photographic magic produces a precise image of the Grand Canyon… ”
- Daniel J. Boorstin- Copy
- 2.1K
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