Gunpowder Quotes

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

Men, Real, Tall

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

Love, Romantic, Humanity

Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.
Philip James Bailey

Military, Animal, Loves

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

War, Mind, Done

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.
Gary Locke

History, Economic, Press

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.
John Boyd Orr

Government, Whole, Times

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.
Pete du Pont

Family, Business, Father

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.
Charles C. Mann

Big, Whole, Road

I lost my hair mixing a substance called white gunpowder on the kitchen table.
Mark Oliphant

Lost, Hair, White

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