What Are the Best Engraving Quotes?: The Complete List of Short, Meaningful Quotes for Gift Giving (277 Ideas!)
What Are the Best Engraving Quotes?: The Complete List of Short, Meaningful Quotes for Gift Giving (277 Ideas!)
It's really hard to know what custom engraving to get on a personalized gift for a loved one.
I've written another article on the subject that gives some strategies for coming up with your own engraving verbiage.
In this article, however, I've compiled a list here of easy, short, custom engraving go-to's that can help you narrow down the right engraving ideas for your gift recipient.
In this article, you'll see my full list of suggestions along with 50 famous quotes about writing, books, pens, and more!
After that, I've gathered 10 hilarious pen puns just for laughs to go along with your engraved gift.
Before I jump in, two preliminary remarks to relieve any potential stress about engraving choices:
- You can never go wrong by simply getting their name engraved on the pen. It's simple and still super meaningful.
- At Dayspring Pens, you can get your pen engraved with two lines of personalized engraving to double the possibilities for quotes. This just gives you more wiggle room. (If you're interested in engraved gift pens, be sure to check out our list of best sellers.)
- There's no end to the meaningful phrases and powerful quotes you can say to a loved one. 277 suggestions is just NOT enough. So, these gifting ideas are really just meant to help get your gears turning as far as the possibilities. You don't have to just copy and paste from the list below.
Add your own spin!
So without further delay...
277 things to engrave on your gift pen
I've organized all my suggestions by occasion, relationships, and occupations.
Let's take it case-by-case.
Engraving ideas for the Christmas season
Engraving ideas for friends
Engraving ideas for family members
Engraving ideas for birthdays
Engraving ideas for Valentine's Day and Anniversaries
Engraving ideas for Father's Day
Engraving ideas for Mother's Day
Engraving ideas for coworkers
Engraving ideas for work promotions and new hires
Engraving ideas for graduations
Engraving ideas for award recipients
Engraving ideas for writers
Engraving ideas for doctors and other medical professionals
Engraving ideas for lawyers
Engraving ideas for psychologists, psychiatrists, and therapists
Engraving ideas for philosophers
Engraving ideas for clergy
Engraving ideas for inspiration
Engraving ideas for encouragement
Engraving ideas for laughs
There are a ton of other lists of engraving ideas out there as well if you need more.
Check out the list from Thoughtful Impressions here, and another comprehensive list from Love, Georgie.
49 famous sayings about pens, books, and writing!
Here's 49 famous quotes about all things writing to go with the gifts you engrave.
Some of the quotes in here can also be boiled down to short meaningful phrases that you can get on your personalized pen, but I also suggest you use these for ideas of gift notes to give alongside the pen!
1.) "The pen is mightier than the sword."
2.) “Anyone who thinks the pen is mightier than the sword has not been stabbed with both.”
― Lemony Snicket
3.) “I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.”
― Jorge Luis Borges
4.) “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges
5.) "And all the sweet serenity of books.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
6.) “My library is an archive of longings.”
― Susan Sontag
7.) “She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.”
― Annie Dillard
8.) "[To] the library, and step on it.”
— David Foster Wallace
9.) “The world was hers for the reading.”
— Betty Smith
10.) “I cannot live without books.”
― Thomas Jefferson
11.) “Books are the mirrors of the soul.”
-Virginia Woolf
12.) “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
― St. Augustine
13.) “′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
― Mark Twain
14.) “Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket
15.) “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis
16.) “Into the ash I dripped my pen and came out with fire.”
― Jazz Feylynn
17.) "Every moment is a fresh beginning."
– T.S Eliot
18.) “Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.”
― T.S. Eliot
19.) "Whatever you do, do it well."
– Walt Disney
20.) "What we think, we become."
– Buddha
21.) "If I’m gonna tell a real story, I’m gonna start with my name."
– Kendrick Lamar
22.) "Reality is wrong, dreams are for real."
– Tupac
23.) "Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud."
– Maya Angelou
24.) "And still, I rise."
– Maya Angelou
26.) "The time is always right to do what is right."
– Martin Luther King Jr.
27.) "The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
— Sylvia Plath
28.) “Let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences”
― Sylvia Plath
29.) "I can never read all the books I want."
-Sylvia Plath
30.) “Books were safer than other people anyway.”
― Neil Gaiman
31.) “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams
32.) “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway
33.) “There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway
34.) “You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
― Ray Bradbury
35.) “I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.”
― Anne Frank
36.) “Tears are words that need to be written.”
― Paulo Coelho
37.) “Always be a poet, even in prose.”
― Charles Baudelaire
38.) “The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.”
― Albert Camus
39.) “Write what should not be forgotten.”
― Isabel Allende
40.) “A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity."
― Franz Kafka
41.) “Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.”
― Franz Kafka
42.) “I write for the same reason I breathe.”
― Isaac Asimov
43.) “You can fix anything but a blank page.”
― Nora Roberts
44.) “If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.”
― Martin Luther
45.) “To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.”
― Aristotle
46.) “Poems are never finished - just abandoned”
― Paul Valery
47.) “What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written.”
― Jacques Derrida
48.) “Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
― Stephen King
49.) “The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
― Stephen King
50.) “What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.”
― Pericles
I hope these quotes give your gifts that extra touch of personal inspiration!
10 Pen puns to make writers laugh!
I love puns. Every time a customer orders a pen from me with a punny engraving, I celebrate!
That's why I've added some of my favorite pen puns here for your enjoyment.
- "The best pen ever made will be the second to last ever made... Because it would be the penultimate."
- "I bought a pen that can write underwater. It can write other words too."
- "What do Mike and Sulley fill their pens with? Monsters Ink."
- "I got into an argument with a friend about whether pens were better than pencils... I’ll admit, they had a point, but I still think the argument will be erased in time."
- "I decided to make a fortune with a new invention: a vending machine for writing tools! The patent is 'pending'"
- "Somebody stole my pen. That’s just not write."
- "I need some help fixing my new pen. Anyone have any tips?"
- "All my pens are sick. It's a pen-demic."
- "I wrote a bad word in my english paper, and instead of getting a bad grade, my professor just took all my writing instruments away. That was my PENalty."
- "Don't try to repair a broken pen. It's pointless."
Conclusion
I hope you found the right engraving for you!
Before you go, if you're looking for affordable engraved gifts, be sure to check out our list of the best Cross pens.
Now it's your turn!
Let me know your favorite engraving in the comments!
Sam Di Nardo is an author for Dayspring Pens, where she has honed her expertise in ballpoint, rollerball, gel and fountain pens since joining the team in 2018. From her initial role as an Engraver to becoming the Production Manager, Sam's journey has been marked by her passion for the history, manufacturing, and the unique value of gifted writing instruments. A graduate of Regent University with a degree in English Literature and a special interest in Old Norse literature, dive deeper into Sam's world and discover why she's your trusted guide in the realm of gift pens. |
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I need a clever saying for a martini glass for a board member on condo association always getting beat up. She drinks wine but switching her to a martini and will deliver it to her after the meeting. Can you help with ideas??
“To Give Your Thoughts Eternal Life”
Thank You so much for all these ideas – SUPER :)