Fire and gunpowder are not bedfellows.
Fire and gunpowder do not sleep together.
You cannot wage war without the sound of gunpowder.
Flint and gunpowder: every time they meet there is an explosion.
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 ...
If you have run out of gunpowder, use your gun as a club.
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.
V: It is to Madame Justice that I dedicate this concerto, in honor of the holiday that she seems to have taken from these parts, and in recognition of the impostor that stands in her stead. Tell me Evey, do you know what day it is? Evey Hammond: Um, ...
The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.
What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.
Such I hold to be the genuine use of Gunpowder: that it makes all men tall.
We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.
I lost my hair mixing a substance called white gunpowder on the kitchen table.
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.
for the space of half a year, the gunpowder lay as harmless as sand, because no fire came near to explode it.
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.
A knight can fight. As you well know, I fight about as well as a pillow." "That's an insult to pillows. At least they can take a beating.
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.
The fuse is lit. You can run all you want to but you leave a trail of gunpowder in your wake. There’s going to be a reckoning eventually.
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.
