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

  Charles Poliquin

  Fire, Cheerleader

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

  Mao Zedong

  People, Sound, Bigs

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

  Brian Regan

  Fronts

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• God is on the side of the heaviest cannon.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Sides

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• Buy when the cannons are firing, and sell when the trumpets are blowing

  Nathan Meyer Rothschild

  Money, War, Trumpets

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Darkness is not chased away with sticks, not even cannons. One simply lights a small candle and the darkness flees before it.

  Israel Meir Kagan

  Light, Darkness, Sticks

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• When forced to leave my house for an extended period of time, I take my typewriter with me, and together we endure the wretchedness of passing through the X-ray scanner. The laptops roll merrily down the belt, while I’m instructed to stand aside and open my bag. To me it seems like a normal enough thing to be carrying, but the typewriter’s declining popularity arouses suspicion and I wind up eliciting the sort of reaction one might expect when traveling with a cannon. It’s a typewriter,’ I say. ‘You use it to write angry letters to airport security.

  David Sedaris

  Writing, Airports, Typewriters

  David Sedaris (2000). “Me talk pretty one day”

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• The most successful revolutions aren't those that are celebrated with parades and banners, drums and trumpets, cannons and fireworks. The really successful revolutions are those that occur quietly, unnoticed, uncommemorated. We don't celebrate the day the United States Constitution was destroyed; it didn't happen on a specific date, and most Americans still don't realize it happened at all. We don't say the Constitution has ceased to exist; we merely say that it's a 'living document.' But it amounts to the same thing.

  Joseph Sobran

  Successful, United States, Revolution

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• I don't think I'm made of the right stuff to be a politician. I think I'm made to be a loose cannon.

  Penn Jillette

  Thinking, Stuff, Politician

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

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