The pen is mightier than the sword, but no match for the accountant.
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The pen is mightier than the sword, but no match for the accountant.
JONATHAN GLANCEY The pen is no longer mightier than the sword. Everything the pen writes is censored, untrue, inaccur...
ELIAS SHREVE 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 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 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) The pen may indeed be mightier than the sword, but the wordsmith would do well to welcome the blacks...
ALEX MORRITT Love is mightier than hate; it doesn't need a sword to conquer.
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 A scholar’s pen is more valuable than a warrior’s sword.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES My dad never blew anything up, but he probably had friends who did. He and my mom have always preach...
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT Remember always that the composer's pen is still mightier than the bow of the violinist; in you ...
JOHN PHILIP SOUSA Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY The idea is to believe me... but as far as I see the world... to believe is a sin... to trust me one...
DEYTH BANGER No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.
PLATO Maybe the secret to happiness is simplicity.
AMY HARMON Hence it is clear how much more cruel the pen is than the sword.
(Hinc Gham Sit Calmus Saevior E...
ROBERT BURTON A pen in a scholar's pocket is greater than a sword in a warrior's hand.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO My old man always told me never do anything during the day that will keep you awake at night.
JONATHAN DUNNE PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL
NATALIE URQUIETA Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do
SOTONYE ANGA Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand; pen mighter than the sword and so fort...
JASPER FFORDE Jonathan Swift made a soul for the gentlemen of this city by hating his neighbor as himself.
W.B. YEATS To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ...
GARY F EVANS... This is not the age of pamphleteers. It is the age of the engineers. The spark-gap is mightier than ...
LANCELOT HOGBEN Eat for lunch, but let something for dinner.
ERBLIN VUKAJ Jesus Christ wants to show His love for this world through us, Christians.
SUNDAY ADELAJA If you are among the good fellows chances are that you will be among the blemishes for the wicked ar...
APURVA GAGLANI It's hard when you have things but lose them, it's even harder when you feel that you're being left ...
GARY F EVANS... Starting today, must forget what gone yesterday,appreciate what remains today & look forward what ca...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA call it chicken salad
SARAH DESSEN Society. The same society, I might add, that dictates that little girls should always be sugar and s...
SARAH DESSEN The poet lifts his pen as the soldier sheaths his sword.
JETHRO TULL The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people.
CRAIG GROESCHEL What avail is honour or a sword against a pen?
RUDYARD KIPLING I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword.
MARY HARRIS JONES From this it appears how much more cruel the pen may be than the
sword.
[Lat., Hinc quam sit cala...
ROBERT BURTON Life is the everlasting gobstopper with its complications of the starter being birth, the main cours...
GARY F EVANS... Now isn´t the time to change yourself to fit into the world... you should be changing the world to ...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN This Bible is for the government of the people, by the people and for the people.
JOHN WYCLIFFE Together my wife and I are building the kingdom of God, exercising dominion, beating back the weeds ...
R.C. SPROUL JR. Everything about Andrew was hot, from the hands holding him down to the mouth steadily taking Neil a...
NORA SAKAVIC The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness.
JULIA WARD HOWE That's really sad," Beth said softly, "To have no one left.
R.J. SCOTT Dedication is the preparation to success!
WERNER BOTHA What I didn't realize was how many doors the act of writing unlocks, as if my Dad's old fountain pen...
STEPHEN KING From the Kindle Book Reflections in the Mirror of Life:
“In a slum somewhere in India
As...
THE PROPHET OF LIFE 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 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 Nicolas Cage is the best for taking the role of character Joker. He is pretty damn good at jokes!
DEYTH BANGER Alas! my child, where is the Pen
That can do justice to the Hen?
Like Royalty, she goes her w...
OLIVER HERFORD The bottom line is, what defines you isn't how many times you crash, but the number of times you get...
SARAH DESSEN This is a 911? You know you only text that when someone is dead or dying. You scared the crap out of...
SARAH DESSEN It’s the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth.
SARAH DESSEN I would prefer a sword to fight duel, but a pen to plan a war.
ROBERT THIER Could you do a glamour and turn into something smaller?" I asked it. "Preferably not a chain, since ...
RICK RIORDAN The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.
DANIEL WEBSTER Why live for the day,
when you know the next one
is going to be exactly the same.
HUGO SVENSSON In the dark beside me, she smelled of sweat and sunshine and vanilla,
JOHN GREEN It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone, and ca...
OSCAR WILDE The self-styled intellectual who is impotent with pen and ink hungers to write history with sword an...
ERIC HOFFER Your mind is a Microcosm of strength and power. There’s all the magic you need in it. When all els...
CHINONYE J. CHIDOLUE 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 If the best is possible, than good is never enough and only do the best.
ROBERT SIAHAAN Typing is the future of talking and to don't forgot and brother of feature.
DEYTH BANGER His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING A love lust for war ends in death...
PHILIP T. M. Maybe I should have resented him, but I didn't. After losing my mother, I didn't have patience for g...
RICK RIORDAN The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a...
JEANETTE CORON It's not about what it is, it's about what it can become.
DR. SEUSS And so castles made of sand fall in the sea, eventually.
JIMI HENDRIX If the microphone was his pen and sword, the desk was his field of battle. This is a desk with a sto...
DOUG NORWINE The mightier man, the mightier is the thing
That makes him honored or begets him hate;
For gre...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN The future is uncertain, but that can be a good thing.
JENNIFER NIVEN The Lord on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea,
than the mighty waves of the sea.
BIBLE For my generation, the bomber jacket is like a replacement for the suit jacket. It's a piece tha...
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From men of quality and letters;
But when low dunces will ...
JONATHAN SWIFT What some people invent the rest enlarge.
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A bear will not attempt to fly,
A foundered horse w...
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JONATHAN RABAN But when a Man
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JONATHAN SWIFT Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth,...
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JONATHAN SWIFT I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
JONATHAN SWIFT It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.
JONATHAN SWIFT A bad forgery's the ultimate insult.
JONATHAN GASH Promises and pie crusts are made to be broken.
JONATHAN SWIFT But you think that it is time for me to have done with the world, and so I would if I could get into...
JONATHAN SWIFT She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on her with a
pitchfork.
JONATHAN SWIFT Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same positi...
JONATHAN SWIFT And he gave it for his opinion, "that whoever could make two ears
of corn, or two blades of grass, ...
JONATHAN SWIFT I warrant you lay abed till the cows came home.
JONATHAN SWIFT Faith, that's as well said as if I had said it myself.
JONATHAN SWIFT Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.
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And wink a reputation down!
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We first consult our private ends;
While Nature, kindly bent ...
JONATHAN SWIFT A man suffers death himself as often as he loses those dear to
him.
JONATHAN SWIFT He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams
out of cucumbers, which were to be p...
JONATHAN SWIFT Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts wit...
JONATHAN SWIFT Necessity is the mother of invention, it is true -- but it's father is creativity, and knowledge is...
JONATHAN SCHATTKE Necessity is the mother of invention.
JONATHAN SWIFT It is a maxim, that those to whom everybody allows the second
place have an undoubted title to the ...
JONATHAN SWIFT That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that th...
JONATHAN SWIFT Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally
discover everybody's face but their own.
JONATHAN SWIFT It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguishe...
JONATHAN SWIFT We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
JONATHAN SWIFT