The Pen and the Sword. An Italian duelist with his dying breath confessed he had never read the poet on whose behalf he had fought. By . Henrik Bering. Share. Resize. Photo: Associated Press.

Pen and Sword were walking in the woods together and having the same old argument. “No offense, Pen,” said Sword, “but I’m obviously the mightier of the two of us.

In essence, the sword had become stronger than the pen. Meanwhile, Edith managed to enter the United Kingdom as part of the Kindertransport operation to rescue Jewish children living under Nazi ...

Today’s Remington Arms Co. does not make typewriters, but the name still evokes images of both pen and sword. The author David Gerrold may have had all this in mind when he observed, ...

Bulwer through the proverb ‘Pen is Mightier than the Sword’, intended to portray that the power and strength of writing is stronger and more impactful than the influence of violence or war.

In 1939, while in his junior year in high school, the future comic strip artist signed a classmate’s yearbook with a familiar declaration: “the pen is mightier than the sword.” [h/t BBC ...

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