quotes about Gunpowder
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GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disputes which might become troublesome if left unadjusted.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
All her life she'd been warned that men were slaves to their desires, that they held their impulses in barely controlled check. A woman--a lady--must be very, very careful of her actions so she did not put spark to the gunpowder that was a man's libido.
-- Elizabeth Hoyt -
So this was a nest of radicals. She thought a hotbed of sedition would involve more gunpowder and secret handshakes, and less shuffling of feet and passing the sugar.
-- Frances Hardinge -
Metaphor is no argument, though it be sometimes the gunpowder to drive one home, and imbed it in the memory.
-- James Russell Lowell -
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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, brought under one government a quarter of the earth and its inhabitants.
-- John Boyd Orr -
You can't stop things like Bitcoin. [...]. It's like trying to stop gunpowder.
-- John McAfee -
The Thieves of Eddis don't have breaking points. We have flash points instead, like gunpowder.
-- Megan Whalen Turner -
The smell of gunpowder is sweeter to me than all the perfumes of Arabia.
-- Pope Julius II -
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Genius, as an explosive power, beats gunpowder hollow.
-- Thomas Huxley -
The monk that invented gunpowder did as much to stop war as did all the sermons of his brethren.
-- Austin O'Malley