Gunpowder Quotes

You look like you exfoliate with hot skillets and gunpowder every morning. - Unknown

What was gunpowder? Trivial. What was electricity? Meaningless. The atomic bomb is the Second Coming in wrath. - Winston Churchill

What I really like about shooting is meeting the people you get to shoot with and the camaraderie. There's nothing like the smell of gunpowder, and trap shooting is something you can do for the rest of your life. - Paulette Graham

What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind. - Wendell Phillips

We're wrapping up a year where we saw the Christmas rally happen in the autumn time frame. There's not much gunpowder left in December, so it's a month of digestion. - Bryan Piskorowski

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder. - Andre Maurois

We have taken some clothes from the two suspects to the government chemist for tests as experience has shown that gunpowder could have been left on their clothes after shooting at close range. - Simon Kiragu

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

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 new synthetics, in a remarkably short time, displaced gunpowder from its 900-year-old niche as the world's only effective propellant... By the 1890s nations across Europe were rushing to switch to the improved powder. - Jack Kelly