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Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.


G. K. Chesterton

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Beneath the rule of men entirely great,The pen is mightier than the sword.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON Beneath the rule of men entirely great The pen is mightier than the sword.
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword.
BARON LYTTON RICHELIEU Beneath the rule of men entirely great,
The pen is mightier than the sword.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON They say, The pen is mightier than the sword, and the keystroke is mightier still. I say, The pen is...
APURVA GAGLANI The pen is mightier than the sword.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON The pen is mightier than the sword.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The pen is mightier than the sword
AMERICAN PROVERB He that said the pen is mightier than the sword has never been stabbed. He that said the sword is mi...
DEDRICK D. L. PITTER The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.
TERRY PRATCHETT The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp
TERRY PRATCHETT The pen is no longer mightier than the sword. Everything the pen writes is censored, untrue, inaccur...
ELIAS SHREVE The pen is mightier than the sword, but no match for the accountant.
JONATHAN GLANCEY The pen is mightier than the sword, but no match for the accountant.
JONATHAN GLANCEY The pen is mightier than the sword, and considerably easier to write with.
MARTY FELDMAN The pen is mightier than the sword, and is considerably easier to write with.
MARTY FELDMAN Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR If the pen is mightier than the sword then how can actions speak louder than words?
SOURCE UNKNOWN Anyone who thinks the pen is mightier than the sword has not been stabbed with both.
LEMONY SNICKET A pen is mightier then a sword as a sword may only take life while a pen can change the world.
JAMES ALLEN J. M. Barrie founded a celebrity cricket team with Arthur Conan Doyle, H. G. Wells, Jerome K. Jerome...
JOHN LLOYD A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing goes against it,” said G. K. Chesterton...
ROD DREHER The joke is mightier than the sword.
BASSEM YOUSSEF The oil can is mightier than the sword.
EVERETT DIRKSEN The gun is mightier than the pen, was our true opinion, and the RPG is mightier still.
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KATE CHRISTENSEN Life's Irony;The pen can cause a more greater confusion than the most ambitious weapon.
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J.K. ROWLING Love is mightier than hate; it doesn't need a sword to conquer.
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ALEX MORRITT Before I got here, I thought that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it didn't exist, ...
JOHN GREEN From this it is clear how much more cruel the pen is than the sword.
ROBERT BURTON How much more cruel the pen may be than the sword
ROBERT BURTON Remember always that the composer's pen is still mightier than the bow of the violinist; in you ...
JOHN PHILIP SOUSA Caesar had perished from the world of men, had not his sword been rescued by his pen.
HENRY VAUGHAN A scholar’s pen is more valuable than a warrior’s sword.
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MICHAEL KORDA I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Jonathan Swift made a soul for the gentlemen of this city by hating his neighbor as himself.
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FREDERICK THE GREAT A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.
FREDERICK THE GREAT The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the nex...
FREDERICK THE GREAT Upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.
PETER THE GREAT Our work is to present things that are as they are.
FREDERICK THE GREAT I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

{His teacher...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT Rogues, would you live forever?
FREDERICK THE GREAT The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and th...
FREDERICK THE GREAT If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers.
FREDERICK THE GREAT In trying to defend everything he defended nothing.
FREDERICK THE GREAT What is the good of experience if you do not reflect.
FREDERICK THE GREAT The heart itself is only a small vessel,
yet dragons are there, and lions,
there are poisonou...
MAKARIOS THE GREAT An educated people can be easily governed.
FREDERICK THE GREAT I must in the face of a storm, think, live and die as a king.
FREDERICK THE GREAT Every man must get to Heaven his own way.
FREDERICK THE GREAT I love opposition that has convictions.
FREDERICK THE GREAT A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT There is nothing impossible to him who will try.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT Peace is the first thing the angels sang.
LEO THE GREAT They say that kings are made in the image of God. If that is what he looks like, I feel sorry for Go...
FREDERICK THE GREAT Don't forget your great guns, which are the most respectable arguments of the rights of kings.
FREDERICK THE GREAT Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand.
FREDERICK THE GREAT I praise loudly, I blame softly
CATHERINE THE GREAT I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT O Athenians, what toil do I undergo to please you!
ALEXANDER, THE GREAT If I were not Alexander, then should wish to be Diogenes.
ALEXANDER, THE GREAT Talents go by nature not by birth.
FREDERICK THE GREAT I desire to leave to the men that come after me a remembrance of me in good works.
ALFRED THE GREAT I care not for the body which may rot. Yet, for the transgression of the spirit, of moral ethics, of...
THE GREAT PACIFIST My people and I have come to an agreement which satisfied us both. They are to say what they please,...
FREDERICK THE GREAT If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT For to tempt and to be tempted are things very nearly allied - whenever feeling has anything to do i...
CATHERINE THE GREAT So far as I am concerned, I could not be accused of having set eyes, or having wished to set eyes, u...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT I praise loudly. I blame softly.
CATHERINE THE GREAT I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT If my soldiers were to begin to think, not one of them would remain in the army.
FREDERICK THE GREAT I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions.
CATHERINE THE GREAT I wish that the Indians believed me a god, for upon the report of an enemy's valor oftentimes de...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT He who defends everything defends nothing.
FREDERICK THE GREAT I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and ...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT How should a man be capable of grooming his own horse, or of furbishing his own spear and helmet, if...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT Who does not desire such a victory by which we shall join places in our Kingdom, so far divided by n...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.
CATHERINE THE GREAT Oh! Most miserable wretch that I am! Why have I not learnt how to swim?
ALEXANDER THE GREAT Soldiers, I had lately like to have been taken from you by the attempt of a few desperate men, but b...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT Shall I, that have destroyed my Preservers, return home?
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G. K. CHESTERTON Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer b...
G. K. CHESTERTON Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones ...
G. K. CHESTERTON It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might...
G. K. CHESTERTON If there were no God, there would be no Atheists.
G. K. CHESTERTON I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.
G. K. CHESTERTON I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
G. K. CHESTERTON Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.
G. K. CHESTERTON Every man is important is he loses his life; and every man is funny if he loses his hat and has to r...
G. K. CHESTERTON Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
G. K. CHESTERTON By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may ...
G. K. CHESTERTON Beware of no man more than yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.
G. K. CHESTERTON Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.
G. K. CHESTERTON An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly c...
G. K. CHESTERTON "My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate...
G. K. CHESTERTON Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate...
G. K. CHESTERTON Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
G. K. CHESTERTON Happiness is a mystery like religion, and should never be rationalized.
G. K. CHESTERTON Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy ...
G. K. CHESTERTON The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens...
G. K. CHESTERTON There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uni...
G. K. CHESTERTON There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points,...
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