Small Black Powder

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

    “Better to cheat an old grey head than to trick a small child.”
    —Chinese proverb.

    “If there is a man white as marble
    Sits in a wood, in the greenest part,
    Brooding sounds of the images of death,
    So there is a man in black space
    Sits in nothing that we know,
    Brooding sounds of river noises....”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “Any gentleman with the slightest chic will give a girl a fifty dollar bill for the powder room.”
    —George Axelrod (1922)