Pen Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old pen quotes, pen sayings, and pen proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

The pen is the lever that moves the world. Thomas De Witt Talmage
Your pen is your sword. Wield it wisely. C.A. Simonson
Do not pick up the pen unless you understand how heavy it is, and how long you may carry it for. jason Ellis
Pens carry further than rifled cannon. Bayard Taylor
The pen is an instrument of discovery rather than just a recording implement. If you write a letter of resignation or something with an agenda, you're simply using a pen to record what you have thought out. Billy Collins
The pen is the tongue of the mind. Miguel de Cervantes
There is more done with pens than with swords. Harriet Beecher Stowe
The pens which write against disarmament are made with the same steel from which guns are made. Aristide Briand
A pen transmits the voice of the soul. Fennel Hudson
The power of the pen is landmark of life. Lailah Gifty Akita
The pen is the tongue of the soul; as are the thoughts engendered there, so will be the things written. Miguel de Cervantes
The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp. Terry Pratchett
No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery. Harriet Ann Jacobs
The pen is mightier than the sword, if you know where to poke it. Jeremy C. Shipp
Keeping the pen out of your hand as much as possible is the best way to write a song, in my estimation. But the pen must come in to tighten it up. Glen Hansard
The pen is the language of the soul; as the concepts that in it are generated, such will be its writings. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
The magic of the pen lies in the concentration of your thoughts upon one object. George Henry Lewes
Putting pen to paper lights more fire than matches ever will. Malcolm Forbes
A pen is certainly an excellent instrument to fix a man's attention and to inflame his ambition. John Adams
A pen connects you to the paper. It definitely matters. Elmore Leonard
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these It might have been. John Greenleaf Whittier
Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later, and as a rule quite soon, a man discovers that his pen accomplishes a lot more than his soul. Joseph Brodsky
I am a creature of my pen. My pen is the best of me. A. S. Byatt
It is through the tongue, the pen, and the press that truth is principally propagated. Angelina Grimke
You can make anything by writing. C.S. Lewis
The pen is mightier than the sword. Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream. Gaston Bachelard
There is always a sheet of paper. There is always a pen. There is always a way out. H. L. Mencken
Sadness takes up the pen more readily than joy. Henri Frederic Amiel
The pen is the tongue of the hand; a silent utterer of words for the eye. Henry Ward Beecher

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