There are two things necessary to Salvation… Money and gunpowder. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade. — Philip James Bailey Copy Share Image
Frenchmen are like gunpowder, each by itself smutty and contemptible, but mass them together and they are terrible indeed! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
You can't stop things like Bitcoin. [...]. It's like trying to stop gunpowder. — John McAfee Copy Share Image
A Gun with no gunpowder is a useless toy so as A person with no knowledge or Sense of humor ... — Mustapha Falalu Bello Copy Share Image
“The explosive properties of gunpowder were first used in war by the Jin, the northern rivals of the Song, in 1221.” — David Christian Copy Share Image
“No new technology, during the thousand years between gunpowder and the steam engine, was as disruptive as the printing press,” — Kurt Andersen Copy Share Image
All of this blue on my face is from the gunpowder residue from the grenade. It blasted it into my face and… — Kyle Carpenter Copy Share Image
GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disputes which might become troublesome if left unadjusted. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The monk that invented gunpowder did as much to stop war as did all the sermons of his brethren. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
What do nations care about the cost of war, if by spending a few hundred millions in steel and gunpowder they can… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Television was the most revolutionary event of the century. Its importance was in a class with the discovery of gunpowder and the… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
What gunpowder did for war, the printing-press has done for the mind; and the statesman is no longer clad in the steel… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
Ever since the invention of gunpowder.. I continually tremble lest men should, in the end, uncover some secret which would provide a… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
“The Chinese used gunpowder to make fireworks for celebrations, and the white man came along and said, Holy shit, we can use… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“Possibly nothing at all; the overflow of my brain would probably, in a state of freedom, have evaporated in a thousand follies;… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
Force, unregulated or ill-regulated, is not only wasted in the void, like that of gunpowder burned in the open air, and steam… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
The world has been printing books for 450 years, and yet gunpowder still has a wider circulation. Never mind! Printer's ink is… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
Remember, remember the Fifth of November, The Gunpowder Treason and Plot, I know of no reason Why the gunpowder treason Should ever… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Cursing themselves in ragged dreamsfire has singed the edges of,they know a slow dying the fields have come to terms with.Shimmering fans… — Yusef Komunyakaa Copy Share Image
It is too often forgotten that when the Europeans gained enough maritime skills and gunpowder to conquer most of the world, they… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
Oh, it doesn't work at all. That's the problem! It's an endless, halting parade of inspections, bribes, and nonsense-but if you're aboard… — Cherie Priest Copy Share Image
And though it be their sin and vanity that is the cause [of lust], it is nevertheless your sin to be the… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
To evade such temptations is the first duty of the poet. For as the ear is the antechamber to the soul, poetry… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The confidence and security of a people can be measured by their attitude toward laxatives. At the high noon of the British… — Florence King Copy Share Image
By his machines man can dive and remain under water like a shark; can fly like a hawk in the air; can… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
These sudden joys have sudden endings. They burn up in victory like fire and gunpowder. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Remember, remember the fifth of November of gunpowder treason and plot. I know of no reason why the gun powder treason should… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
The Thieves of Eddis don't have breaking points. We have flash points instead, like gunpowder. — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
“We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity – gunpowder and romantic love. ” — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
My nostrils dilate while savoring the acrid odor of gunpowder and blood… Crazy with fury I will stain my rifle red while… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
If we contrast the rapid progress of this mischievous discovery [gunpowder] with the slow and laborious advances of reason, science, and the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
A whole bunch of big technological shocks occurred when Asian innovations - paper, gunpowder, the stirrup, the moldboard plow and so on… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
All her life she'd been warned that men were slaves to their desires, that they held their impulses in barely controlled check.… — Elizabeth Hoyt Copy Share Image
Christian, thou knowest thou carriest Gunpowder about thee, desire those that carry Fire to keep at a Distance from thee; 'tis a… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
The Chinese had gunpowder, but it didn't occur to them to put it in a gun. They possessed the compass but didn't… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
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