Handwritten: Your Favourite Quotes

[Freddy]

Fred

A veteran is someone who at one point wrote a blank check payable to the

United States of America for an amount of up to and including my life.

That is honor and there are way too many people in this country who

no longer understand it.

[RoyalBlueNotebooks]

I've inked up the Wing Sung 698 with a Pluminix F nib. I love the fine stub nib of the Pluminix and the solid build quality of the WS 698. And Verdigris is such a nice ink. I found a delightful combo.

 

Pen: Pilot Pluminix F.

Ink. Rohrer & Klingner Verdigris.

Paper: Clairefontaine.

[Bookman]

[paradigm]

To evaluate the writing with pen and ink in it, I use the following phrase in one of the many diaries:

Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can’t afford to lose.

Thomas Edison

It stretches a few lines and shows how the nib, pen, ink and paper behave together.

[RoyalBlueNotebooks]

Pen: Pelikan Primapenna M. (Now I remember why I stopped using this at school. The cap doesn't seal for bleep.)

Ink: Pelikan 4001 Brilliant Brown with a drop of Rohrer K Sepia.

[Freddy]

Fred

 

...yeah..& time waits for noone......Or

I dream therefore I exist.....A. Strindberg Or...

Monty {Hall} had to be a very likable con man;

he had to convince people to give up a bird

in hand for what's in the box.....David Schwartz..author

The Encyclopedia of TV Game Shows

[Bookman]

[RoyalBlueNotebooks]

An inspiring quote, though the practical (cynical) part of me whispers that it's rather banal.

 

Pen: Pelikan Prima-Penna M.

Ink: Pelikan 4001 Brilliant Brown.

[Freddy]

Fred

 

"There is really no reason why men should go to bed at all."

~ Thomas Alva Edison

 

"We don't even know if we have to sleep at all."

~ Dale Carnegie

 

"We are the supremely arrogant species; we feel we can abandon

four billion years of evolution and ignore the fact that we have

evolved under a light - dark cycle,"

~ Professor Russell Foster

[Bookman]

[Freddy]

Fred

Recipe for Mo-Co:

c-rations coffee w/ cocoa powder & sugar heat

usin' a skelly cap full of C-4...................

[Bookman]

[Freddy]

Fred

Pen: Kato..pif.....Ink: Pilot..Blue-Black

Leave It To Beaver re above dialogue.................................

Look, squirt if your putting us on..I'll break you in two and hang you out to dry.

Lumpy to the Beav........................................................

[mehandiratta]

[Freddy]

Fred

"What the h ell are you worried about?

This is 1874. you'll be able to sue her."

Governor Lepetomane

For bonus points..name the desk set pen.

"Just think of your secretary."

Headly Lamarr

 

Ink: Pilot Blue-Black from bottle

Edited May 22, 2018 by Freddy

[Inky.Fingers]

[RoyalBlueNotebooks]

I haven't read this author, but I found this quote and it made recall happy times so I wanted to share it.

Pen: Wing Sung 3008 with Lamy 1.5 stub.

Ink: Pelikan 4001 Royal Blue.

Paper: Clairefontaine.

[Freddy]

1139 MCXXXIX

Fred

....The poet proclaimed ....In battle..

it's the sweetest thing to slice your running enemy full

through the midriff.

[Bookman]

[RoyalBlueNotebooks]

I have an old Italian translation of "All quiet on the western front" but I've never got around to read it, and now I prefer reading English-written novels in English. If I'm not accepted in a PhD program I'll be able to choose my readings from any genre so that would be a nice opportunity to read it..

 

By the way, this quote by Caesar always makes me snicker.

Pen: N/A with Lamy F nib.

Ink: Rohrer Klingner Sepia.

Paper: Clairefontaine.