Stronger than steel
Is the sword of the spirit;
Swifter than arrows
The life of the truth is;
Greater than anger
Is love, and subdueth. [ Longfellow ]

I'll make thee famous by my pen
And glorious by my sword. [ Marquis of Montrose ]

Hunger is sharper than the sword. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]

The pen is mightier than the sword. [ Bulwer Lytton ]

Gluttony kills more than the sword. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

A killing tongue and a quiet sword. [ William Shakespeare ]

A leaden sword in an ivory scabbard. [ Proverb ]

Surfeits destroy more than the sword. [ J. Fletcher ]

Ne'er put a sword in a madman's hand. [ Scotch Proverb ]

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword. [ Charles Reade ]

One sword keeps another in the sheath. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Beneath the rule of men entirely great,
The pen is mightier than the sword. [ Edward Bulwer Lytton ]

I have obtained it by God and my sword. [ Motto ]

Love rules his kingdom without a sword. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Chase brave employments with a naked sword
Throughout the world. [ Herbert ]

Good sword has often been in poor scabbard. [ Gaelic Proverb ]

Beneath the rule of men entirely great,
The pen is mightier than the sword. Behold
The arch enchanter's wand! itself a nothing!
But taking sorcery from the master hand.
To paralyze the Caesars, and to strike
The loud earth breathless! [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

No sword bites so fiercely as an evil tongue. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

Without a sign his sword the brave man draws,
And asks no omen but his country's cause. [ Homer ]

Beauty can give an edge to the bluntest sword. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

Scanderbeg's sword must have Scanderbeg's arm. [ Proverb ]

A soft answer bids a furioso put up his sword. [ Proverb ]

Some men are born to feast, and not to fight;
Whose sluggish minds, e'en in fair honor's field.
Still on their dinner turn -
Let such pot-boiling varlets stay at home,
And wield a flesh-hook rather than a sword. [ Joanna Baillie ]

A valiant man's look is more than a coward's sword. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Money is a sword that can cut even the Gordian knot. [ Proverb ]

Love rules without a sword and binds without a cord. [ Proverb ]

My sole resources in the path I trod,
Were these - my bark - my sword - my love — my God.
The last I left in youth - He leaves me now -
And man but works His will to lay me low.
I have no thought to mock His throne with prayer,
Wrung from the coward crouching of despair;
It is enough - I breathe - and I can bear. [ Byron ]

Woman's tongue is her sword, which she never lets rust. [ Madame Necker ]

Twine round thee threads of steel, like thread on thread,
That grow to fetters, or bind down thy arms
With chains concealed in chaplets. Oh, not yet
Mayst thou embrace thy corselet, nor lay by
Thy sword; not yet, O Freedom, close thy lids
In slumber; for thine enemy never sleeps.
And thou must watch and combat till the day
Of the new earth and heaven. [ Bryant ]

Why, then the world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open. [ Shakespeare ]

An old wise man's shadow is better than a young buzzard's sword. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

It is now as in the days of yore when the sword ruled all things. [ Schiller ]

Take away the sword; States can be saved without it; bring the pen. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

In choosing a wife and buying a sword we ought not to trust another. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Who draws his sword against his prince, must throw away his scabbard. [ Proverb ]

Improve time in the present; for opportunity is precious, and time is a sword. [ Saadi ]

Fire and sword are but slow engines of destruction in comparison with the babbler. [ Steele ]

The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as those of the sword need swiftness. [ Julia W. Howe ]

Though you are bound to love your enemy, you are not bound to put your sword in his hand. [ Proverb ]

With all his tumid boasts, he's like the sword-fish, who only wears his weapon in his mouth. [ Madden ]

A truth to an age that has rejected and trampled on it, is not a word of peace, but a sword. [ Henry George ]

A wound from a tongue is worse than a wound from the sword; the latter affects only the body - the former, the spirit, the soul. [ Pythagoras ]

Mere intelligence without corresponding energy of the will is a polished sword in its scabbard, contemptible, if it is never drawn forth. [ Lindner ]

What matters it that a soldier has a sword of dazzling finish, of the keenest edge, and finest temper, if he has never learned the art of fence. [ William Matthews ]

Oppose kindness to perverseness. The heavy sword will not cut soft silk; by using sweet words and gentleness you may lead an elephant with a hair. [ Saadi ]

Beauty in a modest woman is like fire at a distance, or like a sharp sword; neither doth the one burn, nor the other wound those that come not too near them. [ Cervantes ]

When Fame stands by us all alone, she is an angel clad in light and strength; but when Love touches her she drops her sword, and fades away, ghostlike and ashamed. [ Ouida ]

Give not thy tongue too great a liberty, lest it take thee prisoner. A word unspoken is like the sword in the scabbard, thine; if vented, thy sword is in another's hand. If thou desire to be held wise, be so wise as to hold thy tongue. [ Quarles ]

The invention of printing added a new element of power to the race. From that hour, in a most especial sense, the brain and not the arm, the thinker and not the soldier, books and not kings, were to rule the world; and weapons, forged in the mind, keen-edged and brighter than the sunbeam, were to supplant the sword and the battle-axe. [ Whipple ]

Plutarch tells us of an idle and effeminate Etrurian who found fault with the manner in which Themistocles had conducted a recent campaign. What, said the hero in reply, have you, too, something to say about war, who are like the fish that has a sword, but no heart? He is always the severest censor on the merits of others who has the least worth of his own. [ E. L. Magoon ]

Those who start for human glory, like the mettled hounds of Actaeon, must pursue the game not only where there is a path, but where there is none. They must be able to simulate and dissimulate; to leap and to creep; to conquer the earth like Caesar, or to fall down and kiss it like Brutus; to throw their sword like Brennus into the trembling scale, or, like Nelson, to snatch the laurels from the doubtful hand of Victory, while she is hesitating where to bestow them. [ Colton ]