Small Black Powder

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

    Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
    Fran Lebowitz (b. 1950)

    Invention flags, his brain goes muddy,
    And black despair succeeds brown study.
    William Congreve (1670–1729)

    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)