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The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall. -- Thomas Carlyle
Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade. -- Philip James Bailey
What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind. -- Wendell Phillips
I lost my hair mixing a substance called white gunpowder on the kitchen table. -- Mark Oliphant
We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder. -- Andre Maurois
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
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. -- Jonathan Swift
Genius, as an explosive power, beats gunpowder hollow. -- Thomas Huxley
You can't stop things like Bitcoin. [...]. It's like trying to stop gunpowder. -- John McAfee
These sudden joys have sudden endings. They burn up in victory like fire and gunpowder. -- William Shakespeare
Metaphor is no argument, though it be sometimes the gunpowder to drive one home, and imbed it in the memory. -- James Russell Lowell
GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disputes which might become troublesome if left unadjusted. -- Ambrose Bierce
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. -- Alan Moore
Too much detail can bog down any story. Enough with the history of gunpowder, the geology of Hawaii, the processes of whaling, and cactus and tumbleweed. -- Edward M. Lerner
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. -- Charles C. Mann
I come from a family that has been here for almost 200 years. My ancestors started a very dangerous gunpowder business in 1802, and my great- grandfather and his father were both killed in gunpowder explosions. -- Pete du Pont
China's history is marked by thousands of years of world-changing innovations: from the compass and gunpowder to acupuncture and the printing press. No one should be surprised that China has re-emerged as an economic superpower. -- Gary Locke
Girls were born knowing how destructive the truth could be. They learned to hold it in, tamp it down, like gunpowder in an old fashioned gun. Then it exploded in your face on a November day in the rain. -- Janet Fitch
Histories of the world omitted China; if a Chinaman invented compass or movable type or gunpowder we promptly "forgot it" and named their European inventors. In short, we regarded China as a sort of different and quite inconsequential planet. -- W. E. B. Du Bois
Some great minds become great by turning the rubble of an exploded paradigm into something consistent and meaningful. Others become great by laying the gunpowder, grain by grain. Every important revolution needs both kinds of minds to complete itself. -- Steven Johnson
If we contrast the rapid progress of this mischievous discovery [gunpowder] with the slow and laborious advances of reason, science, and the arts of peace, a philosopher, according to his temper, will laugh or weep at the folly of mankind. -- Edward Gibbon
The peoples of the old world have their cities built for times gone by, when railroads and gunpowder were unknown. We can have cities for the new age that has come, adopted to its better conditions of use and ornament. We want, therefore, a city planning profession... -- Horace Bushnell
All my time not devoted to my master's service was spent either in prayer, or in making experiments in casting different things in moulds made of earth, in attempting to make paper, gunpowder, and many other experiments, that, although I could not perfect, yet convinced me of its practicability if I had the means. -- Nat Turner
And I find chopsticks frankly distressing. Am I alone in thinking it odd that a people ingenious enough to invent paper, gunpowder, kites and any number of other useful objects, and who have a noble history extending back 3,000 years haven't yet worked out that a pair of knitting needles is no way to capture food? -- Bill Bryson
Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can blow up a man with gunpowder in half a second, while it may take twenty years to blow him up with a book. But the gunpowder destroys itself along with its victim, while a book can keep on exploding for centuries. -- Christopher Morley
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 the bulk of the world's people but they colonized the interpretation of history itself. Human history was rewritten to favor them at the expense of other people. The roots of modern racism can be traced to this conquest and colonization. -- John Henrik Clarke
There are two things necessary to Salvation.... Money and gunpowder. -- George Bernard Shaw
Her voice left a flavor of honey and gunpowder on the air. -- Peter S. Beagle
The smell of gunpowder is sweeter to me than all the perfumes of Arabia. -- Pope Julius II
Exercise is the worst thing in the world and as bad an invention as gunpowder. -- Horace Walpole
The Thieves of Eddis don't have breaking points. We have flash points instead, like gunpowder. -- Megan Whalen Turner
Support for Saddam, including within his military organization, will collapse after the first whiff of gunpowder. -- Richard Perle
War is a terrible trade. But when the cause is just, the smell of gunpowder is sweet. -- Myles Standish
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Frenchmen are like gunpowder, each by itself smutty and contemptible, but mass them together and they are terrible indeed! -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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
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
Most men don't seem to get that telling a pissed-off woman to calm down is like throwing gunpowder on a fire.â? ~ Liberty Jones -- Lisa Kleypas
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 world has been printing books for 450 years, and yet gunpowder still has a wider circulation. Never mind! Printer's ink is the greater explosive: it will win. -- Christopher Morley
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
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. -- Tana French
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
What do nations care about the cost of war, if by spending a few hundred millions in steel and gunpowder they can gain a thousand millions in diamonds and cocoa? -- W. E. B. Du Bois
Christian! thou knowest thou carriest gunpowder about thee. Desire them that carry fire to keep at a distance. It is a dangerous crisis when a proud heart meets with flattering lips. -- John Flavel
The humour of the Chinese people in inventing gunpowder and finding its best use in making firecrackers for their grandfathers' birthdays is merely symbolical of their inventiveness along merely pacific lines. -- Lin Yutang
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. -- Ogden Nash
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. -- Wendell Phillips
Saxon and I had no business even attempting any type of relationship with each other. We were gunpowder and one hell of a spark, and I wasn't about to test our combustibility. -- Liz Reinhardt
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. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Genius as an explosive power beats gunpowder hollow; and if knowledge, which should give that power guidance, is wanting, the chances are not small that the rocket will simply run amuck among friends and foes. -- Thomas Huxley
Ever since the invention of gunpowder.. I continually tremble lest men should, in the end, uncover some secret which would provide a short way of abolishing mankind, of annihilating peoples and nations in their entirety. -- Baron de Montesquieu
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 printing press, which changed the human condition for centuries afterward. -- Russell Baker

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