Bow Quotes
563 quotes by 445 authors
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Land! An island! We devoured it greedily with our eyes and woke the others, who tumbled out drowsily and stared in all directions as if…
— Thor Heyerdahl
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Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to…
— Douglas MacArthur
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What if in my waking hours a sound should ring through the silent halls of hearing? ... Would the bow and string tension of life…
— Helen Keller
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In the doggie dictionary, under "bow wow" it says, "See "arf arf.""
— George Carlin
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I have never conceived that having been in public life required me to belie my sentiments, or to conceal them. Opinion and the just maintenance…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Remove the temptation of idleness and Cupid's bow is useless.
— Ovid
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The highwayman takes solely upon himself the responsibility, danger, and crime of his own act. He does not pretend that he has any rightful claim…
— Lysander Spooner
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A short letter to a distant friend is, in my opinion, an insult like that of a slight bow or cursory salutation - a proof…
— Samuel Johnson
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Know that a word suddenly shot from the tongue is like an arrow shot from the bow. Son, that arrow won't turn back on its…
— Rumi
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We are here to start an era, to start an Age, to celebrate the transition from the Piscean Age into the Aquarian Age. We are…
— Harbhajan Singh Yogi
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The flagrantly gay Quentin Crisp dealt with homophobic bullying by refusing to bow to its onslaught. His number listed in the phone directory, he responded…
— Quentin Crisp
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Sometimes you have tons of money, and still you are miserable, you are not satisfied. The bow of gratitude and arrow of mercy will give…
— Harbhajan Singh Yogi
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Their woes gone by, and both to heaven upflown, To bow for gratitude before Jove's throne.
— John Keats
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As the arrow that leaves the bow cannot be recaptured, what we say, senselessly, about others causes us great harm.
— Sylvia Fraser
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And I loathe people who find it harder to put up with a gown askew than with a soul askew and who judge a man…
— Michel de Montaigne
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The historian should be fearless and incorruptible; a man of independence, loving frankness and truth; one who, as the poets says, calls a fig a…
— Lucian
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Let weak and frail man come here suppliantly to adore the Sacrament of Christ, not to discuss high things, or wish to penetrate difficulties, but…
— Paul of the Cross
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If you are proud of your descent from virtuous ancestors, how empty their virtue will leave your hands if you yourself are not virtuous. How…
— Ibn Hazm
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Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift.
— Regina Brett
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I always made an awkward bow.
— John Keats
Who Wrote These Bow Quotes
445 authors contributed a total of 563 Bow Quotes, led by these top contributors: