Cannon Quotes
107 Cannon quotes by 97 unique authors
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So . . . I feel in regard to this aged England . . . pressed upon by transitions of trade and . . .…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I think that a hat which has a little cannon that fires and then goes back inside the hat is at least a decade away.
— Jack Handey
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You can't fire a cannon, from a canoe!
— Charles Poliquin
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I know their game. First, the traders and the missionaries: then the ambassadors: then the cannon. It's better to go straight to the cannon.
— Unknown Author
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My philosophy is that once you get people compelled enough to sit down and play the game, the whole way you make the game successful…
— Richard Garriott
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You need at this time especially to know that you are fit for something better than slavery and cannon fodder.
— Eugene V. Debs
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I was always a bit of a loose cannon, then again I was always the artistic one: bit of a social misfit. I probably still…
— Brian Molko
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Never had I understood that I command, with absolute authority, the ship of my life! I decide its mission and rules and discipline, at my…
— Richard Bach
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Sir, it is not God who will assemble us on the battlefield, nor position our troops, nor place the cannon, and it is not God…
— Winfield Scott Hancock
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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 knowledge…
— George Bernard Shaw
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We understand that Nixon's aggression against Vietnam is a racist aggression, that the American war in Vietnam is a racist war, a white man's war...We…
— Jane Fonda
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A cannon fires only once but words detonate across centuries
— Grant Morrison
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The whole proletariat must be armed at once with muskets, rifles, cannon and ammunition, and the revival of the old-style citizens militia, directed against the…
— Karl Marx
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As men neither fear nor respect what has been made contemptible, all honor to him who makes oppression laughable as well as detestable. Armies cannot…
— Edwin Percy Whipple
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The regional security in the Middle East cannot be further compromised by an Iranian loose cannon.
— Russ Carnahan
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A volcano may be considered as a cannon of immense size.
— Oliver Goldsmith
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Imagine the world so greatly magnified that particles of light look like twenty-four-pound cannon balls.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Do not use a cannon to kill a mosquito.
— Confucius
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Here Churchill repeats with approval a statement he had first made in January, 1930 "at a meeting at the Cannon Street Hotel." "Sooner or later…
— Winston Churchill
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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
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Don't ever quit. Never quit. Never show anybody you're hurt. Grin and walk through the cannon smoke. It will drive them up the wall. You…
— James Lee Burke
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I had the most expensive haircut you can get, and I was walking around with my hair in rollers backstage, and my hair still came…
— Kelly Cutrone
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I'm very much involved in art. I started buying art a few years ago and really like the work of T.C. Cannon, who is a…
— Ronnie Dunn
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I like somebody who makes me laugh. He's also got to be prepared - I'm sort of a loose cannon, in a good way. I…
— Monica Keena
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Brother Cannon remarked that people wondered how many wives and children I had. He may inform them that I shall have wives and children by…
— Brigham Young
Who Wrote These Cannon Quotes
97 authors contributed a total of 107 Cannon Quotes, led by these top contributors: