Cannons Quotes

• We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Christian, Wisdom, Easter

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• A cannon fires only once but words detonate across centuries

  Grant Morrison

  Fire, Century

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• I hate the idea of owning a gun, but I love the idea of owning a cannon.

  Daniel Tosh

  Hate, Gun, Ideas

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• Do not use a cannon to kill a mosquito.

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

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• Never bring a cannon on stage in Act I unless you intend to fire it by the last act.

  Anton Chekhov

  Fire, Lasts, Stage

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• If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Peace, War, Want

  "Libretto for the Republic of Liberia". Book by Melvin Beaunorus Tolson, 1953.

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• The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Love, Dream, Kissing

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Professor At The Breakfast Table”, p.269, Reprint Services Corporation

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• Human nerves quickly get accustomed to the most unusual conditions and circumstances and I noticed that quite a number of men actually fell asleep from sheer exhaustion in the trenches, in spite of the roaring of the cannon about us and the whizzing of shrapnel over our heads.

  Fritz Kreisler

  Men, Numbers, Roaring

  Fritz Kreisler (2014). “Four Weeks In The Trenches; The War Story Of A Violinist [Illustrated Edition]”, p.21, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• The cannon thunders... limbs fly in all directions... one can hear the groans of victims and the howling of those performing the sacrifice... it's Humanity in search of happiness.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Funny, Happiness, War

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• A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people will be astonished that such a thing could have been.

  Victor Hugo

  Fighting, Museums, People

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• I hate small towns because once you've seen the cannon in the park there's nothing else to do.

  Lenny Bruce

  Funny, Hate, Boredom

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Balls, Should, Mark

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.157

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• Buy on the cannons and sell on the trumpets.

  John Neff

  Trumpets, Sells

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• There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon. The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Tired, Mean, Gun

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• You can't fire a cannon, from a canoe!

  Charles Poliquin

  Fire, Cheerleader

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• For God's Sake be sure you do not risk the cannon.

  John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough

  War, Risk, Sake

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• People like me sound like a lot of big cannons.

  Mao Zedong

  People, Sound, Bigs

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• The cannon will not suffer any other sound to be heard for miles and for years around it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Years, Suffering, Sound

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes (1914). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed”

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• Do not stand directly in front of a cannon...how true that is.

  Brian Regan

  Fronts

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• The way the moon dashes through clouds that blow Loosely as cannon-smoke... Is a reminder of the strength and pain Of being young; that it can't come again, But is for others undiminished somewhere.

  Philip Larkin

  Pain, Blow, Moon

  Philip Larkin (2014). “Collected Poems”, p.129, Faber & Faber

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• There's a time for casting silver; a time for casting cannon. If that isn't in the red, it should be!

  Paul Revere

  Red, Casting, Silver

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• Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Fire, Numbers, Balls

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• CANNON, n. An instrument employed in the rectification of national boundaries.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Peace, War, Boundaries

  "The Devil's Dictionary". Book by Ambrose Bierce, 1906.

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• Cannons and fire-arms are cruel and damnable machines; I believe them to have been the direct suggestion of the Devil. If Adam had seen in a vision the horrible instruments his children were to invent, he would have died of grief.

  Martin Luther

  Children, Grief, Believe

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• Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.

  John Roberts

  Taxation, Levels, Authority

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