A word spoke is an arrow let fly. [ Proverb ]

Music so softens and disarms the mind
That not an arrow does resistance find. [ Waller ]

Draw not your bow before your arrow be fixed. [ Proverb ]

A man without money is a bow without an arrow. [ Proverb ]

Set but this feather well to my arrow and he'll certainly shoot the mark. [ Proverb ]

It is with a word as with an arrow: the arrow once loosed does not return to the bow; nor a word to the lips. [ Abdel-Kader ]

Scandals are like dandelion seeds - they are arrow-headed, and stick where they fall, and bring forth and multiply fourfold. [ Ouida ]

Calumny crosses oceans, scales mountains and traverses deserts, with greater ease than the Scythian Abaris, end like him, rides upon a poisoned arrow. [ Colton ]

Pain and love are the portion of the man who does not like a coward shirk the world's destiny; if he plucks the arrow from his breast, he becomes as one dead for the world and God. [ N. Lenau ]

Avoid that which an enemy tells you to do; for if you follow his advice, you will smite your knees with the hand of sorrow. If he shows you a road straight as an arrow, turn from it and go the other way. [ Saadi ]

The first being that rushes to the recollection of a soldier or a sailor, in his heart's difficulty, is his mother; she clings to his memory and affection in the midst of all the f orgetf ulness and hardihood induced by a roving life; the last message he leaves is for her; his last whisper breathes her name. The mother, as she instills the lessons of piety and filial obligation into the heart of her infant son, should always feel that her labor is not in vain. She may drop into the grave, but she has left behind her influences that will work for her. The bow is broken, but the arrow is sped, and will do its ofiice. [ A. H. Motte ]