Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“2571. Hunger scarce kills any; but Gluttony and Drunkenness, Multitudes.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1736) : I saw few die of Hunger, of Eating 100000.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“(Alternate version.) A brave man will kill you with a sword, a coward with a kiss.”
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Song lyrics, Slow Train Coming (1979), Gonna Change My Way of Thinking
Yagyū Munenori (1571–1646) samurai and daimyo of the early Edo period
As quoted in Behold the Second Horseman (2005), by Joseph Lumpkin, p. 53.
Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature
The Garden of Forking Paths (1942), The Garden of Forking Paths
Taisen Deshimaru (1914–1982) Japanese Buddhist monk
As quoted in A Galaxy Not So Far Away : Writers and Artists on Twenty-five Years of Star Wars (2002) by Glenn Kenny, p. 99
Miyamoto Musashi (1584–1645) Japanese martial artist, writer, artist
Go Rin No Sho (1645), The Fire Book
“There is more done with pens than with swords.”
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896) Abolitionist, author
This is very similar in theme to "Beneath the rule of men entirely great, The pen is mightier than the sword." by Edward Bulwer-Lytton.
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