Our name for problems is significant.We call them headaches.You take a powder and theyare gone.

-Acheson, Dean Gooderham
Quoted in David S McLellan Dean  Acheson: The State DepartmentYears (1976).

Put your trust in God, my boys, and keep your powder dry. See Forgy 330:25.

-Blacker,Valentine
'Oliver's  Advice', collected in E Hayes Ballads of Ireland (1856), vol.1, p.192. The words are sometimes attributed to Oliver Cromwell.

A ship is always referred to as 'she' because it costs so much to keep her in paint and powder.

-Nimitz, Admiral Chester (William)
  In the NewYork Times, 24 May.