Buy on the cannons and sell on the trumpets.

Buy when the cannons are firing, and sell when the trumpets are blowing

— Nathan Meyer Rothschild

The most successful revolutions aren't those that are celebrated with parades and banners, drums and trumpets, cannons and fireworks. The really successful revolutions are…

— Joseph Sobran

Nothing could be smarter, more splendid, more brilliant, better drawn up than two armies. Trumpets, fifes, hautboys, drums, cannons, formed a harmony such as…

— Voltaire

The Anti-Vivisector does not deny that physiologists must make experiments and even take chances with new methods. He says that they must not seek…

— George Bernard Shaw

Decoration Day is the most beautiful of our national holidays… The grim cannon have turned into palm branches, and the shell and shrapnel into…

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

You can't fire a cannon, from a canoe!

— Charles Poliquin

With a rasping cough, the vampire shakes its head. "It was you who called us. All of you, with your war. The roar of…

— Mike Mignola

It really is a choice between division or unity, between an economy that works for everyone or one that is stacked for those at…

— Hillary Clinton

Seasons pursuing each other the indescribable crowd is gathered, it is the fourth of Seventh-month, (what salutes of cannon and small arms!

— Walt Whitman

No conjunction can possibly occur, however fearful, however tremendous it may appear, from which a man by his own energy may not extricate himself,…

— Benjamin Disraeli

Yes, I am a pirate, two hundred years to late. Cannons don't thunder, there's nothing to plunder, I'm an over forty victim of fate.

— Jimmy Buffett

Working on television is like being shot out of a cannon. They cram you all up with rehearsals, then someone lights a fuse and…

— Tallulah Bankhead

Hurrah for revolution and more cannon-shot! A beggar upon horseback lashes a beggar on foot. Hurrah for revolution and cannon come again! The beggars…

— George Bernard Shaw

We study health, and we deliberate upon our meats and drink and air and exercises, and we hew and we polish every stone that…

— John Donne

The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains…

— James A. Garfield