Cannon Quotes

107 Cannon quotes by 97 unique authors

Pens carry further than rifled cannon. — Bayard Taylor
The cannon will not suffer any other sound to be heard for miles and for years around it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hurrah for revolution and more cannon-shot! A beggar upon horseback lashes a beggar on foot. Hurrah for revolution and cannon come again! The beggars have… — George Bernard Shaw
You know, I remember Career Day in high school. I remember plumbers and lawyers... I don't remember a booth where you could sign up to… — Jeff Foxworthy
Our small ears never had such a workout as on the Fourth of July, hearing not only our own bursting crackers but also those of… — Paul Engle
I'm politically inclined towards the left, but I don't like to be in anyone's gang; I'm a bit of a loose cannon. — Joanne Harris
The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer. — Oliver Wendell Holmes
I don't think I'm made of the right stuff to be a politician. I think I'm made to be a loose cannon. — Penn Jillette
Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon;… — Samuel Johnson
Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in… — Rudyard Kipling
My tattoo is of a cannon in Vancouver that I got in a fleeting moment of stupidity maybe 14 years ago. A lot of people… — Ryan Reynolds
There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and… — William Tecumseh Sherman
Eddie Drake is sort of this loose cannon, funny, edgy guy, who has this really foolish, foolish mustache. — Lee Tergesen
If we care about the children, the grandchildren, the future generations, we need to make sure that they do not become the cannon fodder of… — Helen Thomas
Some people will tell you that slow is good – but I’m here to tell you that fast is better. I’ve always believed this, in… — Hunter S. Thompson
A perfect writer would make words sing, dance, kiss, do the male and female act, bear children, weep, bleed, rage, stab, steal, fire cannon, steer… — Walt Whitman
When forced to leave my house for an extended period of time, I take my typewriter with me, and together we endure the wretchedness of… — David Sedaris
It's not the side-effects of the cocaine - I'm thinking that it must be love. It's too late to be grateful, It's too late to… — David Bowie
Nowadays, if a man living in a civilized country (ha!) hears cannon blasts in his sleep, he will, of course, mistake them for thunderclaps, gun… — Andrea Camilleri
Indeed, ask every man separately whether he thinks it laudable and worthy of a man of this age to hold a position from which he… — Leo Tolstoy
Isn't it a riddle . . . and awe-inspiring, that everything is so beautiful? Despite the horror. Lately I've noticed something grand and mysterious peering… — Sophie Scholl
And this Atlantean Destroyer is now leading the Daimons and sending them out to battle against Acheron, who is just using us and the humans… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
The way the moon dashes through clouds that blow Loosely as cannon-smoke... Is a reminder of the strength and pain Of being young; that it… — Philip Larkin
Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That is why God made fast motorcycles, Bubba.... — Hunter S. Thompson
See, bad things happen to me on field trips. Like at my fifth-grade school, when we went to the Saratoga battlefield, I had this accident… — Rick Riordan

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