Quotes of Gunpowder - somelinesforyou

“ The proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will do more execution than a whole barrel of gunpowder idly exploded in the air. ”

- William Gilmore Simms

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

- Thomas Carlyle

“ We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity — gunpowder and romantic love. ”

- Andre Maurois

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

- Wendell Phillips

“ We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like. I have prepared one of my own. I have placed some rather large samples of dynamite, gunpowder, and nitroglycerin… ”

- Alfred Hitchcock
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