"caught them, they wrapped the children in their scrolls and lit them on fire. The Islamic prophet Muhammad is quoted, in a saying narrated by 'Abdullah ibn Amr: """"There will be a tribulation that will wipe out the Arabs in which those killed on both sides are in the Hellfire. In that time the spoken word will be stronger than the sword"""".<ref> The pen is mightier than the sword ""The pen is mightier than the sword"" is a metonymic adage, coined by English author Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1839, indicating that communication (particularly written language), or in some interpretations, administrative power"
"than the sword. Do not be carried away in your heart by the delights of bold talk.<br> Practice the art of speaking, which will profit everyone greatly.<br> Speech is for man a sharper weapon than the sword;<br> God has given each being one weapon: to birds,<br> The ability to fly; to coursers, speed; to lions, strength;<br> To bulls, horns which grow of themselves; to bees, he has given<br> Their sting as a natural defense; to men, the armor of words. Translations, will obviously, vary. In 2005, Walter T. Wilson wrote a new translation and attached the Greek text. His book"
"According to the website Trivia-Library.com, the book ""The People's Almanac"" by Irving Wallace and David Wallechinsky lists several supposed predecessors to Bulwer's phrasing. Their first example comes from the Greek playwright Euripides, who died c. 406 BC. He is supposed to have written: ""The tongue is mightier than the blade."" If the ""People's Almanac"" is correct, it should be possible to source this to an extant work by Euripides; however, the quote does appear in the 1935 fictional work ""Claudius the God and his Wife Messalina"" by Robert Graves, and is thus possibly an anachronism. Several possible precursors do appear"
"and commonplace"". The Thomas Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress, which opened in 1897, has the adage decorating an interior wall. Though Bulwer's phrasing was novel, the idea of communication surpassing violence in efficacy had numerous predecessors. The saying quickly gained currency, says Susan Ratcliffe, associate editor of the Oxford Quotations Dictionaries. ""By the 1840s it was a commonplace."" Assyrian sage Ahiqar, who reputedly lived during the early 7th century BC, coined the first known version of this phrase. One copy of the Teachings of Ahiqar, dating to about 500 BC, states, ""The word is mightier than the sword."""
"from the height of a horse’s back the cut of a ""machaira"" will serve you better than the thrust of a ""xiphos."""" (Xenophon, 12:11). His reasoning concurs with the general practice of arming cavalry with cutting swords through the ages. Greek art along with Xenophon's further commentary suggests that the sword he intended for the cavalry was wider than the more modern sabre; more akin to the falchion or even machete. The Koine of the New Testament uses the word ""makhaira"" to refer to a sword generically, not making any particular distinction between native blades and the gladius of the"
"extended our trade, – Gave food to our loving wives children, and cattle, But the queen of all weapons – the spade, boys, the spade. Give me the spade! There's a magic about it That turns the black soil into bright shining gold, What would our fathers have done, boys, without it, – When the land lay all bare, and the night winds blew cold? Where the tall forest stood, and the wild beasts were yelling, And our stout-hearted ancestors shrank back afraid, – The rich corn-stack is raised, and man claims a dwelling, Then hurrah! for our true friend"
"Excalibur Excalibur (), or Caliburn, is the legendary sword of King Arthur, sometimes also attributed with magical powers or associated with the rightful sovereignty of Britain. Excalibur and the Sword in the Stone (the proof of Arthur's lineage) are sometimes said to be the same weapon, but in most versions they are considered separate. Excalibur was associated with the Arthurian legend very early on. In Welsh, it is called ""Caledfwlch""; in Cornish, ""Calesvol""; in Breton, ""Kaledvoulc'h""; and in Latin, ""Caliburnus"". The name ""Excalibur"" ultimately derives from the Welsh ""Caledfwlch"" (and Breton ""Kaledvoulc'h"", Middle Cornish ""Calesvol"") which is a compound of"
"wood is cooler than the moon. The words of virtuous persons are cooler than moon and sandalwood. 74. Elephant shines by the rut (6), sky by rain clouds, woman by character, horse by speed, temple by regular festivals, speech by grammatical correctness, rivers by swan couples, an assembly by the presence of scholars, a family by virtuous son, earth by king and the three worlds by the Sun. 75. One who is jealous, one who speaks untruth, one who is ungrateful and one who carries enmity for a long time – these four are karmachandalas (7) 76. Protect your fame"
"had several editors including Pieter W. van der Horst. Do not revel in boastfulness and rage in your heart.<br> Practice speaking well, which will greatly benefit everyone.<br> Surely the word is for a man a weapon sharper than iron.<br> To each God has allotted a weapon: power to roam the air<br> to birds, to horses swiftness, strength to lions;<br> for bulls there are self-growing horns; stingers to bees<br> he's given as an inborn defense, but the word to people for protection. Its authorship was deciphered by Jacob Bernays and its contents are widely discussed and studied in theology schools even"
"it may be derived from German, or from the Old Norse ""all macht"", meaning Almighty. Almace In the legendary ""Song of Roland"", Almace, Almice or Almacia is the sword of Turpin, Archbishop of Reims, one of the last three Franks to die at the Battle of Roncevaux Pass, along with Roland (Orlando in Italian) and Gualter de Hum. Unlike Roland's much more famous sword Durendal, very little is said about Almace in the Song of Roland. However the Norse saga, the ""Karlamagnus saga"" expands this slightly, claiming that a sword called Kurt (better known as the Curtana), Almace and Durendal"
"scabbard were bent at 180 degrees. It was known as killing the sword. Thus they might have considered swords as the most potent and powerful object. In the summer of 2018, an eight-year-old girl found a sword in a scabbard (mistranslated into English by google as swordskid in the original press release page see also the English language account given by the father of said eight-year-old) made from wood and leather, which is determined to be from the Iron Age, in Lake Vidösten in Scandinavia. By the time of Classical Antiquity and the Parthian and Sassanid Empires in Iran, iron"
"not to hold it. In the old free days, all (he) wanted was a sharp sword and a straight path to (his) enemies. Now, no paths are straight and my sword is useless. When I overthrew Numedides, then (he) was the Liberator - now they spit at (his) shadow. They have put a statue of that swine in the temple of Mitra, and people go and wail before it, hailing it as the holy effigy of a saintly monarch who was done to death by a red-handed barbarian. When (he) led her armies to victory as a mercenary, Aquilonia overlooked"
"When the swords flash out in seventy million hands And seventy million voices roar Thy dreadful name from shore to shore? With many strengths who art mighty and stored, To thee I call Mother and Lord! Thou who savest, arise and save! To her I cry who ever her foeman drove Back from plain and Sea And shook herself free. [Verse 2] Thou art wisdom, thou art law, Thou art heart, our soul, our breath Thou art love divine, the awe In our hearts that conquers death. Thine the strength that nerves the arm, Thine the beauty, thine the charm."
"Iron in folklore Iron has a long and varied tradition in the mythology and folklore of the world. Cold iron is a poetic term for iron. Francis Grose's ""1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue"" defines cold iron as ""A sword, or any other weapon for cutting or stabbing."" This usage often appears as ""cold steel"" in modern parlance. Rudyard Kipling's poem ""Cold Iron"", found in his 1910 collection of stories ""Rewards and Fairies"", used the term poetically to mean ""weapon"". ""Cold iron"" is historically believed to repel, contain, or harm ghosts, fairies, witches, and other malevolent supernatural creatures. This belief"
"sources see it as a parable about pride and humility, providing advice on how to survive in turbulent times. This in turn gave rise to various proverbs such as 'Better bend than break' and 'A reed before the wind lives on, while mighty oaks do fall', the earliest occurrence of which is in Geoffrey Chaucer's ""Troilus and Criseyde"" (II.1387-9). It so happens that there is an overlap here with the old Chinese proverb 'A tree that is unbending is easily broken'. The saying originally occurred in the religious classic, the ""Tao Te Ching"", with the commentary that 'The hard and"
"wealth, the kith and kin for family reputation and the girl for beauty. 11. A scorpion has poison in its tail. A bee has poison in its head. Takshaka has poison in its teeth. An evil person has poison in all his limbs. 12. Sky is the strength of birds, water the strength of fish; king the strength of the weak and wailing the strength of babies. 13. Renounce that wife who is quarrelsome, steals money, faithless and speaks ill of her husband, eats before feeding her husband or children and visits others‟ houses, even if she is the mother"
"strong will fall, the soft and weak will overcome'. A variant Greek version of the fable substituted an olive tree for the oak. The tree taunts the reed for its frailty and yielding to every wind but the reed does not answer back. The wisdom of its behaviour becomes apparent when the tree is snapped in the buffeting of a storm. Similar advice, evidence that the fable was then current among Jews, is given in the Talmud (""Tanis"" 20b), where the saying 'Be pliable like a reed, not rigid like a cedar' is attributed to Rabbi Simeon ben Eleazar. Although"
"Megingjörð In Norse mythology, the megingjörð (meaning ""power-belt"" in Old Norse) is a belt worn by the god Thor. The Old Norse name megin means power or strength, and gjörð means belt. According to the ""Prose Edda"", the belt is one of Thor's three main possessions, along with the hammer Mjölnir and the iron gloves Járngreipr. When worn, the belt is described as doubling Thor's already prodigious strength. In verse 7 of the skaldic poem Þórsdrápa (Thorsdrapa, Lay of Thor) written by the 10th-century poet Eilífr Goðrúnarson, in the service of Jarl Hákon Sigurðarson, refers to Thor's power-belt. <poem> Harðvaxnar"
"letter of conferral, The source of generosity and the origin of reward, The ornament and beauty of the seal and the dagger, It is disdain for gold and scorn for coins, Were the cloud to adopt its habits, If the sun left its traces as this thing does, Its movements are the vanguards of reward, In the time of struggle, it is stronger than the ocean, </poem> The narrator provides the following solution: <poem style=""margin-left:2em""> I said: 'This is the hand of the free-giving king, So long as water, earth, fire and wind exist, </poem> Medieval Persian literature also attests"
"thoughts and abilities a hundredfold. The young man resolves to be strong and brave (heeding the Elder's advice that whatever is in his mind at the time will be amplified by the powder), and upon sprinkling himself with the powder and invoking the magic phrase grows to fifty feet in size, becoming stronger and braver. He disposes of the bear without violence, proving that he has passed the test. Unfortunately, a girl horseback riding witnesses the entire affair and uses her lasso to steal the pouch. Despite the Elder telling her her thoughts were evil, she uses the magic powder"
"use words such as old, ancient, or ancestral. However this may not always fit the story of the hero, such as when the sword is forged for him. In Næġling's case, the sword has more of a literary characteristic than a specific ancestral lineage, as is evident from its name. Nevertheless the sword is described as being ""gomol ond grægmæl"" (old and gray). Nægling Næġling () is the name of one of the swords used by Beowulf in the Anglo-Saxon epic poem of ""Beowulf"". The name derives from ""næġl"", or ""nail"", and may correspond to Nagelring, a sword from the"
"Magic sword A magic sword is any mythological or fictional sword imbued with magical power to increase it's strength or grant it other supernatural qualities. The archetype originated in myth and legend, and occurs regularly in fantasy fiction. Renowned swords appear in the folklore of every nation that used swords. Sometimes the sword is ascribed no powers of its own. It is famous because it is the hero's sword, or because of its origin, as when a god gives it to the hero. Other swords keep their wielders safe or destroy their enemies. A more localized motif is the sword"
"in the Old and New Testaments, for example, in the Epistle to the Hebrews, whose authorship is uncertain, has been translated as: ""Indeed, the word of God is living and effective, sharper than any two-edged sword, penetrating even between soul and spirit, joints and marrow, and able to discern reflections and thoughts of the heart."" An incident in the Babylonian Talmud refers to the Roman troops entering the synagogue classrooms. ""And when the enemy entered there, these schoolchildren stabbed them with their pens [behotreihen - a type of sharp stick used with waxed tablets]. And when the enemy prevailed and"
"magical powers or merely had a magical origin, though its scabbard protected its bearer from physical harm. Many interpretations of the legend appear to endow Excalibur with a cutting strength and durability beyond that of ordinary weapons. In Wolfram Von Echenbach's Parzival, the eponymous hero is given a sword by the Grail king, Anfortas. Parzival's cousin explains that ""“The sword will withstand the first blow unscathed; at the second it will shatter. If you then take it back to the spring, it will become whole again from the flow of the water. You must have the water at the source…If"
"Irish term meaning ""Sword of Light"", or ""Shining Sword"", appears in a number of orally transmitted Irish folk-tales. Excalibur Excalibur (), or Caliburn, is the legendary sword of King Arthur, sometimes also attributed with magical powers or associated with the rightful sovereignty of Britain. Excalibur and the Sword in the Stone (the proof of Arthur's lineage) are sometimes said to be the same weapon, but in most versions they are considered separate. Excalibur was associated with the Arthurian legend very early on. In Welsh, it is called ""Caledfwlch""; in Cornish, ""Calesvol""; in Breton, ""Kaledvoulc'h""; and in Latin, ""Caliburnus"". The name"
"strength by the Shia along with its alternative form ""Ya Ali Madad"" (""یا علی مدد"", ""O! Ali, help!""). Ali is established as the strongest, bravest, cleverest, chivalrous warrior and the son-in-law of the Prophet. He is also one of the rightly guided Caliphs in Sunni school of thought. There is a tradition of using these phrases as slogans in religious gatherings meant to increase one's level of morale and also in situations demanding religious passion. For example, two or more people having to lift a weight would say 'یا علی مدد'. It is believed to give one strength to endure"
"an acharya (teacher) of sastravidya, Kshatriya and vaishya should learn from the Acharya, while a shudra could not take a teacher, left to “fight of his own in danger”. Over time, weaponry evolved and India became famous for its flexible wootz steel. The most commonly taught weapons in the Indian martial arts today are types of swords, daggers, spears, staves, cudgels and maces. Weapons are linked to several superstitions and cultural beliefs in the Indian subcontinent. Drawing a weapon without reason is forbidden and considered by Hindus to be disrespectful to the goddess Chandika. Thus the saying that a sword"
"Little Lion said: ""You are indeed more brave than me, but I am the strongest!"" The Ant laughed, called Little Lion the most stupid and advised him to find the Bald Elephant. And the Little Lion went to look for the Bald Elephant. And when he saw how a huge elephant easily rips out a tree by the root, he realized who is the strongest! The eagle said: ""Listen and remember! Do not say that you are brave - you will meet someone braver! Do not say that you are strong - you will meet a stronger one! Do not"
"Charlemagne's biographer, said that the one who had given the sword would explain its meaning. Charlemagne himself then begins to interpret it: the sword is the (military) power he has from God, meant abundance beyond what his parents enjoyed, meant that his sons will share less abundance than he, meant that they will be greedy and oppressive towards the Church, and meant simply ""the end"". The anonymous author asserts that he received the story from Rabanus Maurus, who told it widely after rising to the Archbishopric of Mainz. Rabanus was said to have heard it from Einhard, who had it"
"Dory (spear) The dory or doru (; """") is a spear that was the chief armament of hoplites (heavy infantry) in Ancient Greece. The word """"dory"" was first attested by Homer with the meanings of ""wood"" and ""spear"". Homeric heroes hold two ""dorata"" () (Il. 11,43, Od. 1, 256). In the Homeric epics and in the classical period the dory was a symbol of military power, possibly more important than the sword, as can be inferred from expressions like ""Troy conquered by dory"" (Il. 16,708) and words like """"doryktetos"" () (spear-won) and """"doryalotos"" () (spear-taken). The dory was about 2"
"sounds of the ""Shabd""). The mantra is Guru Manter. These are some verbal words that one gets from living masters and chants in mind, not with the mouth. As the language varies from culture to culture, Guru Manter or Mantra may also vary from culture to culture in spirituality. On the other hand, Naam or Word of God or Kalma is unspeakable, alive and no one can write it on paper. In the new testament ""Hebrews 4:12"" states, """"For the Word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it pierces even to dividing soul and spirit,"
"or all of the above. Swordsmanship, the art of the sword, has an almost mythological ethos, and is believed by some to be the paramount martial art, surpassing all others. Regardless of the truth of that belief, the sword itself has been the subject of stories and legends through virtually all cultures in which it has been employed as a tool for violence. In Japan, the use of the katana is no different. Although originally the most important skills of the warrior class were proficiency at horse-riding and shooting the bow, this eventually gave way to swordsmanship. The earliest swords,"
"with a longsword, two-handed sword, or Zweihänder, which were always intended to be used with two hands. In fantasy, magic swords often appear, based on their use in myth and legend. The science fiction counterpart to these is known as an energy sword (sometimes also referred to as a ""beam sword"" or ""laser sword""), a sword whose blade consists of, or is augmented by, concentrated energy. A well known example of this type of sword is the lightsaber, shown in the ""Star Wars"" franchise. Sword A sword is a bladed weapon intended for slashing or thrusting that is longer than"