Loose Cannon

Famous quotes containing the words loose and/or cannon:

    Thou madest loose grace unkind;
    Gavest bridle to their words, art to their pace.
    O Honour, it is thou
    That makest that stealth, which Love doth free allow.
    Torquato Tasso (1544–1595)

    Examples are cited by soldiers, of men who have seen the cannon pointed, and the fire given to it, and who have stepped aside from he path of the ball. The terrors of the storm are chiefly confined to the parlour and the cabin.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)