fkyu Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 How about a post in the spirit of Bartlett’s Quotations, focusing on Fountain Pens.A collection of all the truisms, maxims, pithy little sayings you’ve come up with, or heard once and remembered.Here’s a few of my own. - A fountain pen always knows when your wearing your favorite shirt. - There’s an unholy attraction between nibs and feeds and an open drain. - Don’t blame the pen for the ink. - To push down on a fountain pen; to force it to write, is to still not understand fountain pens. - Sometimes an ugly pen writes better than a beautiful one. - The nib and feed are 90% of a good pen, and 100% of a bad one. - Perfect pen and ink combinations, unexplained, but it happens. - The best fountain pen somehow makes your handwriting look better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PAKMAN Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 Dropped pens always land on the nib! PAKMAN My Favorite Pen Restorer My Favorite Pen Store Vanness Pens - Selling Online! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnsi02 Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 (edited) - The thing that justifies a cranky, inefficient artifact like a fountain pen is how it can express the writers personality. - sidthecat Edited to attribute the source. Thanks for a nice quote, sidthecat, I've paraphrased it often since first seeing it to explain in brief why I use fountain pens. Edited July 10, 2020 by johnsi02 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlos.q Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 Life is too short for crappy pens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peroride Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 I'm gonna make one up as influenced by FPN particularly @Bo Bo Olsen - There's a new pen or sucker born every month Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vicpen123 Posted July 11, 2020 Share Posted July 11, 2020 A pen is a pen is a pen is a pen (repeating) is not true. Life is too short not to enjoy a good pen (or cigar, car, meal, drink, holiday .....). Fill yer hand with .....ink. A nib is where the thought meets the paper. The fountain pen is mightier than the ballpoint. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PAKMAN Posted July 11, 2020 Share Posted July 11, 2020 Life is too short to write with an ugly pen or black ink! PAKMAN My Favorite Pen Restorer My Favorite Pen Store Vanness Pens - Selling Online! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fkyu Posted July 11, 2020 Author Share Posted July 11, 2020 came across a new one this morning:"The pen is the tongue of the mind." Horace - roman poet (65 - 8 BC) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antenociticus Posted July 12, 2020 Share Posted July 12, 2020 "IV. Avoid haphazard writing materials. A pedantic adherence to certain papers, pens, inks is beneficial. No luxury, but an abundance of these utensils is indispensable."Walter Benjamin, "The Writer's Technique in Thirteen Theses", from One-Way Street (1925–26) Lined paper makes a prison of the page. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maurizio Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 Here are two from famous writers: My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.Graham Greene None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try.Mark Twain The prizes of life are never to be had without trouble - Horace Kind words do not cost much, yet they accomplish much - Pascal You are never too old to set a new goal or dream a new dream - C.S. Lewis Favorite shop:https://www.fountainpenhospital.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beechwood Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 (edited) HM The Queen to Prince Philip at a press conference and needing to sign a document. 'Have you brought your pen' 'Err no' 'I told you to' Seeing the problem, Arthur Edwards, photographer at the Sun, hands her a Bic. Her response. 'Hmm, a ballpoint'. Edited July 17, 2020 by Beechwood Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beechwood Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 Headline in the newspaper BROAD MEDIUM FINE Underneath it said female spiritualist recovers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markh Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 .... Some pen, somewhere, knows you have too much money and need to spend it..... . ... "Bad spelling, like bad grammar, is an offense against society." - - Good Form Letter Writing, by Arthur Wentworth Eaton, B.A. (Harvard); © 1890 . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freddy Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 "Never met a pen I didn't like", Fred Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Runnin_Ute Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 (edited) See the Mark Twain quote in my signature. "None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try." Mark Twain Edited July 18, 2020 by Runnin_Ute Brad "Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind" - Rudyard Kipling"None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try." - Mark Twain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
praxim Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 (edited) The pens you use least become the most expensive you own. edit: this was evidently ambiguous so I changed a word. I intend that price does not matter, usage does. Edited July 19, 2020 by praxim X Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Runnin_Ute Posted July 19, 2020 Share Posted July 19, 2020 The pens you use least are the most expensive you own. Interesting. In my case, my three most expensive ($150+) are among my most used. Brad "Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind" - Rudyard Kipling"None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try." - Mark Twain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PAKMAN Posted July 19, 2020 Share Posted July 19, 2020 True for me, don't think my 3-4 most expensive pens have been in rotation for quite a while! PAKMAN My Favorite Pen Restorer My Favorite Pen Store Vanness Pens - Selling Online! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
praxim Posted July 19, 2020 Share Posted July 19, 2020 Interesting. In my case, my three most expensive ($150+) are among my most used.Then they are cheap. That was my meaning. It is usage which determines effective price, not original price be it high or low. X Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
svn Posted July 19, 2020 Share Posted July 19, 2020 Borrowed from the Russian pen forum (post #7, belongs to Nightingale323F)http://www.elitepen.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?t=19423&start=0in my (quite probably, not so perfect) translation: Not all international converters are born equal, some are more international while others are less so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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