And though it be their sin and vanity that is the cause, it is nevertheless your sin to be the unnecessary occasion:… — Richard Baxter 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
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
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 strength of the people is effective only if it is concentrated; it evaporates and is lost when it is dispersed, just… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau 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
In recent times, European nations, with the use of gunpowder and other technical improvements in warfare, controlled practically the whole world. One,… — John Boyd Orr 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
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
China's history is marked by thousands of years of world-changing innovations: from the compass and gunpowder to acupuncture and the printing press.… — Gary Locke 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
And if the problem [with contraception] is promiscuity, then why does the immense popularity of Viagra go unchecked? Doesn't it make more… — Margaret Cho 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
Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade. — Philip James Bailey 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
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. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
The apothegm is the most portable form of Truth.... It is thus that the proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a… — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
“For the space of half a year, the gunpowder lay as harmless as sand, because no fire came near to explode it.” — Emily Brontë Copy Share Image
The peoples of the old world have their cities built for times gone by, when railroads and gunpowder were unknown. We can… — Horace Bushnell Copy Share Image
The greatest Inventions were produced in Times of Ignorance; as the Use of the Compass, Gunpowder, and Printing; and by the dullest… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Exercise is the worst thing in the world and as bad an invention as gunpowder. — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage leaf to make an apple pie; and at the same time a… — Samuel Foote Copy Share Image
Girls were born knowing how destructive the truth could be. They learned to hold it in, tamp it down, like gunpowder in… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
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