The pen is mightier than the sword


American Proverb

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APURVA GAGLANI
The pen is mightier than the sword.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON
The pen is mightier than the sword.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
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
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.
G. K. CHESTERTON
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
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
Beneath the rule of men entirely great,
The pen is mightier than the sword.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
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
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.
LYDIA MILLET
Love is mightier than hate; it doesn't need a sword to conquer.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO
The pen may indeed be mightier than the sword, but the wordsmith would do well to welcome the blacks...
ALEX MORRITT
A scholar’s pen is more valuable than a warrior’s sword.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO
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
Life's Irony;The pen can cause a more greater confusion than the most ambitious weapon.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
A pen in a scholar's pocket is greater than a sword in a warrior's hand.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO
Hence it is clear how much more cruel the pen is than the sword.
(Hinc Gham Sit Calmus Saevior E...
ROBERT BURTON
My dad never blew anything up, but he probably had friends who did. He and my mom have always preach...
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT
The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the cold war, is that the engine of c...
RAND PAUL
Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand; pen mighter than the sword and so fort...
JASPER FFORDE
This is not the age of pamphleteers. It is the age of the engineers. The spark-gap is mightier than ...
LANCELOT HOGBEN
What avail is honour or a sword against a pen?
RUDYARD KIPLING
The poet lifts his pen as the soldier sheaths his sword.
JETHRO TULL
From this it appears how much more cruel the pen may be than the sword. [Lat., Hinc quam sit cala...
ROBERT BURTON
I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword.
MARY HARRIS JONES
The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness.
JULIA WARD HOWE
Our spirit is mightier than the filth of our memories.
MELINA MARCHETTA
The divine force within you is mightier than any mountain.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.
PLATO
The self-styled intellectual who is impotent with pen and ink hungers to write history with sword an...
ERIC HOFFER
I'll make thee glorious by my pen, And famous by my sword.
JAMES GRAHAM
There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great compe...
MUHAMMAD ALI JINNAH
I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pist...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS
If the microphone was his pen and sword, the desk was his field of battle. This is a desk with a sto...
DOUG NORWINE
Caesar had perished from the world of men, had not his sword been rescued by his pen.
HENRY VAUGHAN
The Lord on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea.
BIBLE
Things seen are mightier than things heard.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
I would prefer a sword to fight duel, but a pen to plan a war.
ROBERT THIER
I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please.
MOTHER JONES
When strength is yoked with justice, where is a mightier pair than they?
AESCHYLUS
Who is mightier than death? Those who can smile when death threatens.
RUCKETT
It is better to walk than curse the road. - Wolof proverb, Senegal
AFRICAN PROVERBS
Maybe the secret to happiness is simplicity.
AMY HARMON
Deeds are better things than words are, actions mightier than boastings
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
Hunger is sharper than the sword.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER
It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone, and ca...
OSCAR WILDE
The curve is more powerful than the sword.
MAE WEST
The point is that descriptive writing is very rarely entirely accurate and during the reign of Olaf ...
TERRY PRATCHETT
...and the great advantage of being a literary woman, was that you could go everywhere and do everyt...
HENRY JAMES
To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ...
GARY F EVANS...
Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do
SOTONYE ANGA
Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral position, is mightier than steam,...
EDWIN HUBBELL CHAPIN
Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral position, is mightier than steam,...
EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN
Great anger is more destructive than the sword
INDIAN PROVERB
So far had the pen, under the king, the superiority over the sword. [Fr., Tant la plume a eu sous...
LOUIS DE ROUVROY DUC DE ST. SIMON
Gluttony kills more then the sword. [Gluttony kills more than the sword.]
GEORGE HERBERT
Could you do a glamour and turn into something smaller?" I asked it. "Preferably not a chain, since ...
RICK RIORDAN
Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.
VERONICA ROTH
The mightier man, the mightier is the thing That makes him honored or begets him hate; For gre...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The tongue is more to be feared than the sword
JAPANESE PROVERB
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. English Proverb (17th century)
ENGLISH PROVERB
I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
What I didn't realize was how many doors the act of writing unlocks, as if my Dad's old fountain pen...
STEPHEN KING
A double-edged sword was more useful than no weapon at all.
CHARLIE N. HOLMBERG
A man painstakingly plans for every detail, carefully lays the foundations, picks his moments wisely...
ANGELO TSANATELIS
Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest wea...
MAHATMA GANDHI
Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the tongue, and spee...
MAXIMS OF PTAHHOTEP
Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the tongue, and spee...
PTAH-HOTEP
Alas! my child, where is the Pen That can do justice to the Hen? Like Royalty, she goes her w...
OLIVER HERFORD
For though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.
THOMAS PAINE
The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.
SWEDISH PROVERB
Gluttony kills more than the sword.
PROVERB
Gluttony kills more than the sword
PROVERB
With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and ex...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG
With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and ex...
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG
There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
THOMAS CARLYLE
The language of sword is less powerful than the language of word, but most of
the people unders...
KEDAR JOSHI
The proverb is something musty.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Dedication is the preparation to success!
WERNER BOTHA
There is nothing sexier than sword fight.
STANA KATIC
I wear my Pen as others do their Sword. To each affronting sot I meet, the word Is Satisfaction: str...
JOHN OLDHAM
I wear my Pen as others do their Sword. To each affronting sot I meet, the word Is Satisfactio...
JOHN OLDHAM
When your mouth stumbles, it's worse than feet. - Oji proverb
AFRICAN PROVERB
Knowledge is a better weapon than a sword.
PATRICIA BRIGGS

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