Ink And Paper Quotations

Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.

Advertising is the ability to sense, interpret... to put the very heart throbs of a business into type, paper and ink.

Animals outline their territories with their excretions, humans outline their territories by ink excretions on paper.

Pale ink is better than the most retentive memory.

Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.

...there's not enough ink and paper to say all I wanted.

With whomsoever or wheresoever may rest the present causes of difficulty that apparently exist towards either the completion of the old engine, or the commencement of the new one, we trust they will not ultimately result in this generation's being acquainted with these inventions through the medium of pen, ink and paper merely; and still more do we hope, that for the honour of our country's reputation in the future pages of history, these causes will not lead to the completion of the undertaking by some other nation or government.

Sure, go ahead, simulate life, using only ink and paper.

I have seen books made of things neither studied nor ever understood ... the author contenting himself for his own part, to have cast the plot and projected the design of it, and by his industry to have bound up the fagot of unknown provisions; at least the ink and paper his own. This may be said to be a buying or borrowing, and not a making or compiling of a book.

Who does not see that I have taken a road along which I shall go, without stopping and without effort, as long as there is ink and paper in the world? I cannot keep a record of my life by my actions; fortune places them too low. I keep it by my thoughts.

Compliments of congratulation are always kindly taken, and cost nothing but pen, ink and paper. I consider them as draughts upon good breeding, where the exchange is always greatly in favor of the drawer.

I am probably exaggerating a little, but I owe my equilibrium to ink and paper.

Never argue with people who buy ink by the gallon....