A few famous and inspiring quotes about pens and writing implements from well known and not so well-known people. Inspirational quotes to motivate, inspire or just think upon while using pens. Feel free to save the best quote for your office desk.
With all written about pens if I have missed anything significant or a quotation just add it to this collection below.
If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write
To hold a pen is to be at war
The pen is a formidable weapon, but a man can kill himself with it a great deal more easily than he can other people
One book, one pen, one child and one teacher can change the world
None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try
I write everything with fountain pens. I don't know why. I've done it since I was bar mitzvahed. I was given a fountain pen, a Parker fountain pen, and I loved it, and I've never liked writing anything with pencils or ball-points
A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'
A pen transmits the voice of the soul
The hand that holds the pen writes history
Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword.
Everyday of your life is a page of your history
Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen
I wear my Pen as others do their Sword
There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.
There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write
You can make anything by writing
Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind
Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia
If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you
Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart
The scariest moment is always just before you start.
These old sayings do also have other uses aside from those first mentioned. A nice idea for a pen engraving or to include with a gift pen.
All of these pen quotes a selection of what I thought the best. There are many more I may have missed. If your favourite is not here, please leave it below.
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