Gunpowder Quotations

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.

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.

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

I was ordered by the Colony to go to the Island of Bermuda in order to seize on the Gunpowder in the British Magazines.

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.

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.

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.

I heard screams and gunfire. I smelled gunpowder and I heard the groans of people dying.

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.

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...

Exercise is the worst thing in the world and as bad an invention as gunpowder.

The dogs are starved to make them mean. They are fed gunpowder and hot pepper before a fight, and they are regularly abused. Losing dogs are often doused in gasoline and burned or tied to weights and drowned.

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

Genius, as an explosive power, beats gunpowder hollow.

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

The proverb answers where the sermon fails.

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.

The monk that invented gunpowder did as much to stop war as did all the sermons of his brethren.

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

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

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.