Quotes
Quotes about Pen
Art thou a pen, whose task shall be To drown in ink What writers think? Oh, wisely write, That pages white Be not the worse for ink and thee.
From this it appears how much more cruel the pen may be than the sword. [Lat., Hinc quam sit calamus saevior euse, patet.]
Oh! nature's noblest gift--my gray-goose quill! Slave of my thoughts, obedient to my will, Torn from thy parent-bird to form a pen, That might instrument of little men!
The pen wherewith thou dost so heavenly sing Made of a quill from an angel's wing.
For what made that in glory shine so long But poets' Pens, pluckt from Archangels' wings?
The pen is mightier than the sword.
Goose [pen] bee [wax] and calf [parchment] govern the world. [Lat., Anser, apie, vitellus, populus et regna gubernant.]
The pen became a clarion.
If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him. [Fr., Qu'on me donne six lignes ecrites de la main du plus honnete homme, j'y trouverai de quoi le faire pendre.]
So far had the pen, under the king, the superiority over the sword. [Fr., Tant la plume a eu sous le roi d'avantage sur l'epee.]
Let there be gall enough in thy ink, though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter.
The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an Angel's wing.
Penetration seems a kind of inspiration; it gives me an idea of prophecy.
The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances. -Martha Washington.
What you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing; it also depends on what sort of person you are. -C. S. Lewis.
That which happens in life is not as important as how you accept it. Walter Brueggeman -Unknown.
If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.
You can spend a lifetime, and, if you're honest with yourself, never once was your work perfect.
If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.
Concentrating on the essentials. We will then be accomplishing the greatest possible results with the effort expended.
The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.
Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen to risk the torments of the afterlife for the smallest pleasure.
When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can write one thought and think another at the same time. Thus a pencil and paper make excellent concentration tools.
Minds are like parachutes; they work best when open.
But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth: That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly.
