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He who lives by the sword dies by the sword.
German proverb
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.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.
Terry Pratchett
Caesar had perished from the world of men, had not his sword been rescued by his pen.
Henry Vaughan
Give me a sword fight any day.
Joseph Fiennes
One sword keeps another in the sheath.
George Herbert
The oil can is mightier than the sword.
Everett Dirksen
The sword is the axis of the world and its power is absolute.
Charles de Gaulle
Disarm, disarm. The sword of murder is not the balance of justice. Blood does not wipe out dishonor, nor violence indicate possession.
Julia Ward Howe
Bring back dueling, I say. Drive-by sword fight.
Tim Roth
Never give a sword to a man who can’t dance.
Confucius
A good sword is the one left in its scabbard.
Japanese proverb
A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.
Robert Burton
A sword, a spade, and a thought should never be allowed to rust.
James Stephens
I wear my Pen as others do their Sword.
John Oldham
The sword was a very elegant weapon in the days of the samurai. You had honor and chivalry much like the knights, and yet it was a gruesome and horrific weapon.
Dustin Diamond
There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Understanding is a three-edged sword. Your side, my side, and the truth.
J. Michael Straczynski
I’ve done movies with a sword before. But I haven’t really been given the full responsibility of something like a Ridley Scott film.
Orlando Bloom
Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country’s cause.
Homer
The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.
Aeschylus
Never give a sword to a fool or power to an unjust man.
Greek Proverb
In America it’s live by the sword of freedom of expression and be will to die by it as well.
Vince McMahon
Israel was not created in order to disappear – Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.
John F. Kennedy
Logic is like the sword – those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler
When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.
Alexander Hamilton
Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Sword fighting in film is not about how good the fighter is, but how good the actor receiving the blows is.
Takeshi Kitano
The sword – the first, for a time the only force: the force of iron.
John Lothrop Motley
To this wonderful page in our country’s history another more glorious still will be added, and the slave shall show at last to his free brothers a sharpened sword forged from the links of his fetters.
Giuseppe Garibaldi
There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.
Buddha
Women who wear kimonos, when the fight, they have to keep their knees together, and when they use a sword, they have to move the sleeves otherwise it gets caught.
Lucy Liu
When the swords flash let no idea of love, piety, or even the face of your fathers move you
Julius Caesar
When the sword of rebellion is drawn, the sheath should be thrown away.
English Proverb
Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.
Richard Steele
It needs but one foe to breed a war, and those who have not swords can still die upon them.
Tolkien
The defense budget is more than a piggy bank for people who want to get busy beating swords into pork barrels
George Bush
Our swords shall play the orators for us.
Christopher Marlowe
By the swords of the mighty will I cause thy multitude to fall, the terrible of the nations, all of them: and they shall spoil the pomp of Egypt, and all the multitude thereof shall be destroyed.
Bible
They all hold swords, being expert in war: every man hath his sword upon his thigh because of fear in the night.
Bible
Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.
John Webster
All books are either dreams or swords.
Amy Lowell
The sword keeps the peace of the land.
Danish Proverb