A Quote by Horace

The pen is the tongue of the mind.

Horace

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Communication Mind Pen Tongue

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Horace
Roman - Poet
65 BC - 8 BC

Loquacity with tongue or pen is its own reward -- or, punishment.

George Eliot

The tongue never slips – remember this always. What goes on within the mind comes invariably on the tongue.

Rajneesh

The pen is the tongue of the hand; a silent utterer of words for the eye.

Henry Ward Beecher

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Of all cold words of tongue or pen, the worst are these: "I knew him when -

Arthur Guiterman

It is through the tongue, the pen, and the press that truth is principally propagated.

Angelina Grimke

The pen is the tongue of the soul; as are the thoughts engendered there, so will be the things written.

Miguel de Cervantes

When the tongue or the pen is let loose in a frenzy of passion, it is the man, and not the subject, that becomes exhausted.

Thomas Paine

If, of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are, It might have been,' More sad are these we daily see: 'It is, but hadn't ought to be!'

Bret Harte

I consider it an indubitable mark of mean-spiritedness and pitiful vanity to court applause from the pen or tongue of man.

George Washington

A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings.

Irvin S. Cobb

I am a man-pen. I feel through the pen, because of the pen.

Gustave Flaubert

I know from experience that to one who thinks much and feels deeply, it often seems that he has only to put down his thoughts and feelings in order to produce something altogether out of the common; yet as soon as he sets to work he falls into a certain mannerism of style and common phraseology; his thoughts do not come spontaneously, and one might almost say that it is not the mind that directs the pen, but the pen leads the mind into common, empty artificiality.

Henryk Sienkiewicz

Aid the dawning, tongue and pen; Aid it, hopes of honest men!

Charles Mackay

Me? I'm just a literary girl gone wrong. Slow with the tongue. Quick with the pen. Undeniably cute. But, on the whole, ill-equipped for the privilege of living.