Gunpowder famous quotes

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

#Agency #Gunpowder #Might

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

#Men #Desire #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.
-- Frances Hardinge

#Feet #Secret #Gunpowder

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

#Memories #Home #Gunpowder

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

#Government #Gunpowder #Warfare

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

#Trying #Gunpowder #Bitcoin

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

#Point Break #Gunpowder #Thieves

The smell of gunpowder is sweeter to me than all the perfumes of Arabia.
-- Pope Julius II

#Smell #Gunpowder #Arabia

Genius, as an explosive power, beats gunpowder hollow.
-- Thomas Huxley

#Power #Genius #Gunpowder

The monk that invented gunpowder did as much to stop war as did all the sermons of his brethren.
-- Austin O'Malley

#War #Gunpowder #Monk