Pen Quotations
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“Here is a pen and here is a pencil, here's a typewriter, here's a stencil, here's a list of today's appointments, and all the flies in all the ointments, the daily woes that a man endures -- take them, George, they're yours!”
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Ogden Nash
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“It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain.”
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Dale Dauten
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“There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.”
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William Makepeace Thackeray
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“For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.”
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John Greenleaf Whittier |
“Let there be gall enough in thy ink; though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter.”
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William Shakespeare
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“The act of putting pen to paper encourages pause for thought, this in
turn makes us think more deeply about life, which helps us regain our
equilibrium.”
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Norbet Platt
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| “The pen is the tongue of the mind.” |
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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“I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I'm not afraid of falling into my inkpot.”
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Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| “The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp” |
Terry Pratchett
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The pen became a clarion.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
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.
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Quintilian (Marcus Fabius Quintilian) |
You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's curst hard reading.
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan |
The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an Angel's wing.
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William Wordsworth |