Print Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old print quotes, print sayings, and print proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

Your life is a print-out of your thoughts. Steve Maraboli
The power is to set the agenda. What we print and what we don't print matter a lot. Katharine Graham
The digital print is becoming the look of our time, and it makes the C-print start to look like a tintype. Joel Sternfeld
The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring. Raymond Chandler
Nothing in fine print is ever good news. Andy Rooney
History is simply a piece of paper covered with print: the main thing is to make history, not to write it. Otto von Bismarck
You can't stop people printing what they want to print. Alan Sugar
Print encourages a sense of closure, a sense that what is found in a text has been finalized, has reached a state of completion. Walter J. Ong
You can print money to bail out a bank, but you can't print life to bail out a planet. Paul Hawken
The large print giveth and the small print taketh away. Tom Waits
Don't follow in any footprints, make your own prints. Because, you are the future of tomorrow. Jackie Joyner-Kersee
If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they print only your thumbs. Arthur Baer
The plainest print cannot be read through a gold eagle. Abraham Lincoln
You are putting on paper, in print, what you sense and feel in your mind. Anthony Barboza
There's nobody between you and the print. Nobody. It's you and the subject and the final print. And if you get it published that way, you've said it. David Douglas Duncan
If print was invented tomorrow, it would be the death of digital. Vaughan Oliver
Print-based libraries developed in an age of scarce printed resources. Tom Peters
Print is predictable and impersonal, conveying information in a mechanical transaction with the reader's eye. Handwriting, by contrast, resists the eye, reveals its meaning slowly, and is as intimate as skin. Ruth Ozeki
In print, people can do anything to you. Everything you do is picked apart. People love it; they're waiting for you to make a mistake. Brian May
Print is predictable and impersonal, conveying information in a mechanical transaction with the reader's eye. Handwriting, by contrast, resists the eye, reveals its meaning slowly, and is as intimate as skin. Ruth Ozeki
Nothing prints more lively in our minds than something we wish to forget. Michel de Montaigne
When you print out your manuscript and read it, marking up with a pen, it sometimes feels like a criminal returning to the scene of a crime. Don Roff
Fairly large print is a real antidote to stiff reading. Ronald Fisher
Lovers of print are simply confusing the plate for the food. Douglas Adams
Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party. Joseph Stalin
If you take away print and embroidery, you have to challenge yourself a bit more on the cut. Joseph Altuzarra
A print is a work of art that us made by transferring an image from an inked surface to a sheet of paper and that exists as one of multiple impressions, which together constitute an edition. Sarah J. S. Suzuki
Making prints and the enthusiasm for printmaking are what ensures that printmaking is a vital, positive and energetic creative medium, which will continue to push forward. Megan Fishpoo
Printmaking provides unending, infinite opportunities for image-making. The freedom of knowing your craft and taking pride in that skill-then it is capable of capturing what we see in out imagination and making it real. Megan Fishpoo
Knowledge is what you get from reading the small print in a contract. Experience is what you get from not reading it. Evan Esar