PRINTING

Related Subjects: Books, Ink, Press

1. The art preservative of arts.—Anonymous
   

2. The printing-press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, one sometimes forgets which.—J. M. BARRIE, Sentimental Tommy
   

3. Ready-writing which we call Printing.—CARLYLE, On Heroes & Hero-Worship
   

4. He who first shortened the labor of Copyists by the 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.—CARLYLE, Sartor Resartus
   

5. I am the printing-press, born of the mother earth. My heart is of steel, my limbs are of iron, and my fingers are of brass.
   
   I sing the songs of the world, the oratorios of history, the symphonies of all time.
   
   I am the voice of today, the herald of tomorrow. I weave into the warp of the past the woof of the future. I tell the stories of peace and war alike.
   
   I make the human heart beat with passion or tenderness. I stir the pulse of nations, and make brave men do better deeds, and soldiers die.
   
   I am the laughter and tears of the world, and I shall never die until all things return to the immutable dust.
   
   I am the printing-press.—ROBERT H. DAVIS, I Am The Printing-Press
   

6. Things printed can never be stopped; they are like babies baptized, they have a soul from that moment, and go on forever.—GEORGE MEREDITH
   

7. All this I speak in print, for in print I found it.—SHAKESPEARE, The Two Gentlemen of Verona

8. The jour printer with gray head and gaunt jaws works at his case,
   He turns his quid of tobacco while his eyes blurr with the manuscript.—WALT WHITMAN, Song of Myself