Gunpowder Quotes

Gunpowder Quote of the day

Remember, remember the 5th of November.

Remember, remember the fifth of November of gunpowder treason and plot. I know of no reason why the gun powder treason should ever be forgot.

A whole bunch of big technological shocks occurred when Asian innovations - paper, gunpowder, the stirrup, the moldboard plow and so on - came to Europe via the Silk Road.

There was a young man of Herne Bay who was making some fireworks one day: but he dropped his cigar in the gunpowder jar. There was a young man of Herne Bay.

The smell of gunpowder is sweeter to me than all the perfumes of Arabia.

The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.

I lost my hair mixing a substance called white gunpowder on the kitchen table.

War is a terrible trade. But when the cause is just, the smell of gunpowder is sweet.

Genius, as an explosive power, beats gunpowder hollow.

There are two things necessary to Salvation.... Money and gunpowder.

GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disputes which might become troublesome if left unadjusted.

You can't stop things like Bitcoin. [...]. It's like trying to stop gunpowder.

Metaphor is no argument, though it be sometimes the gunpowder to drive one home, and imbed it in the memory.

There is no harm in anybody thinking that Christ is in bread. The harm is in the expectation of His presence in gunpowder.

The proverb answers where the sermon fails.

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.

Christian, thou knowest thou carriest Gunpowder about thee, desire those that carry Fire to keep at a Distance from thee; 'tis a dangerous Crisis when a proud Heart meets with flattering Lips.

Frenchmen are like gunpowder, each by itself smutty and contemptible, but mass them together and they are terrible indeed!

I had been right: freedom smelled like ozone and thunderstorms and gunpowder all at once, like snow and bonfires and cut grass, it tasted like seawater and oranges.

The strength of the people is effective only if it is concentrated; it evaporates and is lost when it is dispersed, just as gunpowder scattered on the ground ignites only grain by grain.

Support for Saddam, including within his military organization, will collapse after the first whiff of gunpowder.

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 Germans.

The Thieves of Eddis don't have breaking points. We have flash points instead, like gunpowder.

Her voice left a flavor of honey and gunpowder on the air.

Exercise is the worst thing in the world and as bad an invention as gunpowder.

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.

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.

The monk that invented gunpowder did as much to stop war as did all the sermons of his brethren.

What gunpowder did for war, the printing-press has done for the mind; and the statesman is no longer clad in the steel of special education, but every reading man is his judge.

For the space of half a year, the gunpowder lay as harmless as sand, because no fire came near to explode it.

What gunpowder did for war, the printing press has done for the mind.