Small Arms Weapons

Famous quotes containing the words small, arms and/or weapons:

    “When I think of this life I have led; the desolation of solitude it has been; the masoned, walled-town of a Captain’s exclusiveness, which admits but small entrance to any sympathy from the green country without—oh, weariness! heaviness! Guinea-coast slavery of solitary command!”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    “Prepare your hearts for Death’s cold hand! prepare
    Your souls for flight, your bodies for the earth;
    Prepare your arms for glorious victory;
    Prepare your eyes to meet a holy God!
    Prepare, prepare!”
    —William Blake (1757–1827)

    “Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.”
    —Stendhal [Marie Henri Beyle] (1783–1842)