gun quotes

To the Glorious,Pious, and Immortal Memory of King William theThird,Prince of Orange, who delivered us from Popes and Popery, Knaves and Knavery, Slaves and Slavery, Brass Money, and Wooden Shoes, and He that Will Not Take thisToast May He Be Damn'd,Cramm'd, and Jamm'd Down the Great Gun of Athlone, and the Gun Fired in the Pope's Belly, and the Pope Fired in the Devil's Belly, and the Devil Fired into Hell, and the Door Lock'd, and the Key Forever in the Pocket of a Stout Orangeman. And Here's a Fart for the Bishop of Cork!

-Anonymous
c.1890  'The Orange Toast', traditional Protestant Irish.

Some thirty inches from my nose The frontier of my Person goes, And all the untilled air between Is private pagus or demesne. Stranger, unless with bedroom eyes I beckon you to fraternize, Beware of rudely crossing it: I have no gun, but I can spit.

-W(ystan) H(ugh) Auden
  'Prologue:  The Birth of  Architecture', postscript.

Whatever happens, we have got The Maxim Gun, and they have not.

- (Joseph) Hilaire Pierre Belloc
  The Modern Traveller, bk.6.

Here's the one who likes all our pretty songs And he likes to sing along And he likes to shoot his gun But he don't know what it means.

- Kurt (Donald) Cobain
  'In Bloom'.

I'll give up my gun when you take it from my cold, dead hands.

- Charlton Heston
  In his capacity as President of the National Rifle Association, in The Guardian, 31 Dec.

The healthiest situation in England, on Easthampstead Plain. Free run of Windsor Forest. TheTimes every morning. A double-barrelled gun and pointers, and leave to shoot three Wellington College boys a week (not more) in case black game was scarce.

- Charles Kingsley
   The reward for criminal lunacy. The Water Babies, ch.4.

You're not a nice guy if you have a gun, even if you are a nice guy.

- Edward I(rving) Koch
  In Time, 3 Mar.

   Every Communist must grasp the truth that political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

-Mao Zedong or MaoTse-tung
  'Problems of  War and Strategy', speech, 6 Nov.

I come from a state where gun control is just how steady you hold your weapon.

- Alan (Kooi) Simpson
  In Fortune, 30 Dec.

   A gun gives you the body, not the bird.

- Henry David Thoreau
Quoted in ColinJarmanThe Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

She would write 8 or10 words, then draw her gun and shoot them down.

- E(lwyn) B(rooks) White
  On his wife and fellow editor Katharine S White. Onward and Upward in the Garden.