“I am grateful to some pens that are as sharp as a sword edge; they taught me how to go on calmly and smiling.”
My Enemies, I Thank You (كتاب شكرا أيها الأعداء)
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“For me there are no answers, only questions, and I am grateful that the questions go on and on.”
Quoted in "Hail, Mary!" in The Independent (19 September 2004) http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4159/is_20040919/ai_n12760667/print by Mark Bostridge
Context: For me there are no answers, only questions, and I am grateful that the questions go on and on. I don't look for an answer, because I don't think there is one. I'm very glad to be the bearer of a question.
“Let none presume to tell me that the pen is preferable to the sword.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book IV, Ch. 10.
AppendiX, "The Ambergris Glossary", entry for Caroline of the Church of the Seven-Pointed Star
City of Saints and Madmen (2001–2004)
“You will never know how sharp a sword is unless it's drawn from its sheath”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O04oUcNXmdI
Context: When the lion bares his teeth, do not
fancy that the lion shows to you a smile.
I have slain the man that sought my heart's blood many a time,
Riding a noble mare whose back none else may climb,
Whose hind and fore-legs seem in galloping as one,
Nor hand nor foot requireth she to urge her on.
And O the days when I have swung my fine-edged glaive
Amidst a sea of death where wave was dashed on wave!
The desert knows me well, the night, the mounted men
The battle and the sword, the paper and the pen
“The pen is mightier than the sword, if you shoot that pen out of a gun”
“The pen worse than the sword.”
Hinc quam sic calamus sævior ense, patet.
Section 2, member 4, subsection 4.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I