Powder Quotes

Remember, remember the 5th of November.

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

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.

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

Genius, as an explosive power, beats gunpowder hollow.

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

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.

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

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?

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

Well, doctor, and do I now act like a 'pink powder puff' ?

If people will bring dynamite into a powder factory, they must expect explosions.

The proverb answers where the sermon fails.

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.

We damaged all the big guns we could, and carried away the powder and the lead.

I was quite unable to make any white metal alloy hard enough to be made into powder by my machinery

What ever truth drops on it eventually grinds to a powder.

You cannot powder away what botox can fix. My name is Tamar, and I am for plastic surgery.

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

In one of the most brilliant papers in the English language Hume made it clear that what we speak of as 'causality' is nothing more than the phenomenon of repetition. When we mix sulphur with saltpeter and charcoal we always get gunpowder. This is true of every event subsumed by a causal law in other words, everything which can be called scientific knowledge. "It is custom which rules ," Hume said, and in that one sentence undermined both science and philosophy .

Love exists in powder. Love exists in pills. We are all addicts.

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.

How could I live without powder?

She was fascinated with words. To her, words were things of beauty, each like a magical powder or potion that could be combined with other words to create powerful spells.

I've always been into powder, that's what I like riding, and now you've got to go farther to get it.