What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
The smell of gunpowder is sweeter to me than all the perfumes of Arabia. — Pope Julius II Copy Share Image
“Dispensing indiscriminate justice and the righteous smell of gunpowder.” — Larry Correia Copy Share Image
“Man shall never reach the moon, for such a quantity of gunpowder would be needed as to gravely injure the crew.” — Arthur Mee 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
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
Support for Saddam, including within his military organization, will collapse after the first whiff of gunpowder. — Richard Perle 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
Exercise is the worst thing in the world and as bad an invention as gunpowder. — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
I lost my hair mixing a substance called white gunpowder on the kitchen table. — Mark Oliphant 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
“I had concocted the gunpowder myself from niter, sulfur, charcoal, and a happy heart. When working with explosives, I've found that attitude… — Alan Bradley 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
I was growing up in a society that exerted a lot of control on people, and from both my personality and the… — Cai Guo-Qiang 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
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
“And then he leaves us to our own devices beside a store of gunpowder and flint and a cannon, thereby solidifying our… — Mackenzi Lee Copy Share Image
What I'm really involved in when I'm writing is something that no one ever mentions when they see any play. Writing is… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
What would you not have accomplished if you had been free?" "Possibly nothing at all; the overflow of my brain would probably,… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
Love is the most necessary of all virtues. Love in the person who preaches the word of God is like fire in… — Anthony Mary Claret 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
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
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
“Jodiya's shoulders shook in a silent laugh. Slowly, she lowered her pistol. And flung the grenade she held in her other hand.… — Amanda Downum Copy Share Image
“The best example I know, of this astonishingly stupid attitude towards sport, is that of Franz Ferdinand. His, however, was an achievement… — T.H. White Copy Share Image
Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade. — Philip James Bailey Copy Share Image
There are two things necessary to Salvation… Money and gunpowder. — George Bernard Shaw 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
Most men don't seem to get that telling a pissed-off woman to calm down is like throwing gunpowder on a fire.” ~… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image