Gunpowder Quotes

60 quotes by 54 authors

Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade. — Philip James Bailey
The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall. — Thomas Carlyle
It is too often forgotten that when the Europeans gained enough maritime skills and gunpowder to conquer most of the world, they not only colonized… — John Henrik Clarke
War is a terrible trade. But when the cause is just, the smell of gunpowder is sweet. — Myles Standish
The greatest Inventions were produced in Times of Ignorance; as the Use of the Compass, Gunpowder, and Printing; and by the dullest Nation, as the… — Jonathan Swift
Love is the most necessary of all virtues. Love in the person who preaches the word of God is like fire in a musket. If… — Anthony Mary Claret
And though it be their sin and vanity that is the cause [of lust], it is nevertheless your sin to be the unnecessary occasionâ€¦You must… — Richard Baxter
Guilt is to danger, what fire is to gunpowder; a man need not fear to walk among many barrels of powder, if he have no… — John Flavel
My nostrils dilate while savoring the acrid odor of gunpowder and bloodâ€¦ Crazy with fury I will stain my rifle red while slaughtering any surrendered… — Che Guevara
The Meeting is actually like the Gunpowder Meeting, or some of the earlier American Quaker MeetingsThe long house form is something that was traditionthat's what… — James Turrell
You can't stop things like Bitcoin. [...]. It's like trying to stop gunpowder. — John McAfee
The smell of gunpowder is sweeter to me than all the perfumes of Arabia. — Pope Julius II
Television was the most revolutionary event of the century. Its importance was in a class with the discovery of gunpowder and the invention of the… — Russell Baker
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 a Texas vessel,… — Cherie Priest
[The imagination] . . . inspires an audacious mental habit. We are as elastic as the gas of gunpowder, and . . . a word… — Marsilio Ficino
I lost my hair mixing a substance called white gunpowder on the kitchen table. — Mark Oliphant
In recent times, European nations, with the use of gunpowder and other technical improvements in warfare, controlled practically the whole world. One, the British Empire,… — John Boyd Orr
Genius, as an explosive power, beats gunpowder hollow. — Thomas Huxley
Cursing themselves in ragged dreamsfire has singed the edges of,they know a slow dying the fields have come to terms with.Shimmering fans work against the… — Yusef Komunyakaa
They fought their first action in March of 1775. Embarked on eight small ships, they sailed to the Bahamas and captured a British fort near… — Tom Clancy

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