PEN

Related Subjects: Ink, Writing

1. 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!—ETHEL L. BEERS, The Gold Nugget
   

2. I had rather stand in the shock of a basilisk, than in the fury of a merciless pen.—SIR THOMAS BROWNE, Religio Medici
   

3. Beneath the rule of men entirely great,
   The pen is mightier than the sword.—BULWER-LYTTON, Richelieu
   

4. Oh! nature's noblest gift, my grey goose-quill!
   Slave of my thoughts, obedient to my will,
   Torn from thy parent-bird to form a pen,
   That mighty instrument of little men!—BYRON, English Bards & Scotch Reviewers
   

5. Pen and ink is wit's plough.—JOHN CLARKE, Paroemiologia
   

6. I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because
   I am not afraid of falling into my inkpot.—EMERSON, Conduct of Life
   

7. The pen became a clarion.—LONGFELLOW, Monte Cassino
   

8. Many wearing rapiers are afraid of goose-quills.—SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
   

9. One that excels the quirks of blazoning pens.—SHAKESPEARE, Othello
   

10. Ask my pen,—it governs me, —I govern not it.—STERNE, Tristram Shandy
    

11. Pens are most dangerous tools, more sharp By odds
    Than swords, and cut more keen than whips or rods.—JOHN TAYLOR, News from Hell, Hull, and Halifax
    

12. There's no wound deeper than a pen can give,
    It makes men living dead, and dead men live.—JOHN TAYLOR, A Kicksey-Winsey

13. The feather, whence the pen
    Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men,
    Dropped from an Angel's wing.—WORDSWORTH, Ecclesiastical Sonnets