Gunpowder Mill

Famous quotes containing the words gunpowder and/or mill:

    “And there were present
    the Picninnies,
    and the Jobillies,
    and the Garyulies,
    and the great Panjandrum himself,
    with the little round button at top;
    and they all fell to playing the game
    of catch-as-catch-can,
    till the gunpowder ran out at the heels of their boots.”
    —Samuel Foote (1720–1777)

    “The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.”
    —John Stuart Mill (1806–1873)