Small Black Powder

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

    “The charm of knowledge would be small indeed, were it not that there is so much shame to be overcome on the way to it.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    “By dying I wanted to maintain my honor, and hide a flame so black from the daylight!”
    —Jean Racine (1639–1699)

    “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)