The smell of gunpowder is sweeter to me than all the perfumes of Arabia. — Pope Julius II Copy Share Image
What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind. — Wendell Phillips 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
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
I lost my hair mixing a substance called white gunpowder on the kitchen table. — Mark Oliphant 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
“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
We didn't invent gunpowder. What we did was take things that were there and put them together in a way that works. — Ana Patricia Botin 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
We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder. — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
So this was a nest of radicals. She thought a hotbed of sedition would involve more gunpowder and secret handshakes, and less… — Frances Hardinge 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
“Not all gunpowder is for killing. I have a friend who makes the most amazing fireworks. And who---a little you--- spends all… — Liz Braswell 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
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
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
I had been right: freedom smelled like ozone and thunderstorms and gunpowder all at once, like snow and bonfires and cut grass,… — Tana French 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
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
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
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
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
“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
“Dispensing indiscriminate justice and the righteous smell of gunpowder.” — Larry Correia 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
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
“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
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