Small Black Powder

Famous quotes containing the words small, black and/or powder:

    “Reduce big troubles to small ones, and small ones to nothing.”
    —Chinese proverb.

    “Long sibilant-muscled trees
    Were lifting up, the black poplars.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    “Uncle Ben’s brass bullet-mould
    And powder horn, and Major Bogan’s face
    Above the fire, in the half-light, plainly said
    There’s naught to kill but the animated dead;”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)