Gunpowder Quotes
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The proverb answers where the sermon fails.
— William Gilmore Simms
We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity
romantic love and gunpowder. — Andre Maurois
romantic love and gunpowder. — Andre Maurois
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 fire about him.
— John Flavel
There are two things necessary to Salvation ... Money and gunpowder.
— George Bernard Shaw
The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.
— Thomas Carlyle
We were gunpowder and one hell of a spark, and I wasn't about to test our combustibility. ~ Junk Miles
— Liz Reinhardt
Does this smell like paprika or gunpowder to you?
— William Ritter
He could fit what he knew about women in a bullet casing and still have room for the gunpowder.
— Karen Witemeyer
Remember, remember the 5th of November.
— Guy Fawkes
These sudden joys have sudden endings. They burn up in victory like fire and gunpowder.
— William Shakespeare
What gunpowder did for war, the printing press has done for the mind.
— Wendell Phillips
For the space of half a year, the gunpowder lay as harmless as sand, because no fire came near to explode it.
— Emily Bronte
War is a terrible trade. But when the cause is just, the smell of gunpowder is sweet.
— Myles Standish
The monk that invented gunpowder did as much to stop war as did all the sermons of his brethren.
— Austin O'Malley
Good, happy, swift; there's gunpowder i'th' court,
Wildfire at midnight in this heedless fury. — Thomas Middleton
Wildfire at midnight in this heedless fury. — Thomas Middleton
Man shall never reach the moon, for such a quantity of gunpowder would be needed as to gravely injure the crew.
— Arthur Mee
There was too much hatred in the world; it was manifestly as dangerous as gunpowder, yet people let it lie about, in the way of ignition.
— Rebecca West
The Thieves of Eddis don't have breaking points. We have flash points instead, like gunpowder.
— Megan Whalen Turner
Metaphor is no argument, though it be sometimes the gunpowder to drive one home, and imbed it in the memory.
— James Russell Lowell
Frenchmen are like gunpowder, each by itself smutty and contemptible, but mass them together and they are terrible indeed!
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Most men don't seem to get that telling a pissed-off woman to calm down is like throwing gunpowder on a fire."
~ Liberty Jones — Lisa Kleypas
~ Liberty Jones — Lisa Kleypas
There is no harm in anybody thinking that Christ is in bread. The harm is in the expectation of His presence in gunpowder.
— John Ruskin
The nouvelle cuisine of anarchy. Barium nitrate in a sauce of sulfur and garnished with charcoal. That's your basic gunpowder. Bon appetit.
— Chuck Palahniuk
Support for Saddam, including within his military organization, will collapse after the first whiff of gunpowder.
— Richard Perle
Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.
— Philip James Bailey
The devil hath his gunpowder plots, and mines, which may blow you up before you are aware. Not
— Richard Baxter
Her voice left a flavor of honey and gunpowder on the air.
— Peter S. Beagle
(The Germans invented gunpowder - all credit to them! but they again made things square - they invented printing.)
— Friedrich Nietzsche