Stronger than steel
Is the sword of the spirit;
Swifter than arrows
The life of the truth is;
Greater than anger
Is love, and subdueth. [ Longfellow ]

He makes arrows of all sorts of wood. [ Proverb ]

How fleet is a glance of the mind!
Compared with the speed of its flight.
The tempest itself lags behind,
And the swift-winged arrows of light. [ Cowper ]

The wounds invisible that Love's keen arrows make. [ William Shakespeare ]

A good archer is not known by his arrows but his aim. [ Proverb ]

Who is it needs such flawless shafts as fate?
What archer of his arrows is so choice, or hits the white so surely? [ Lowell ]

How blunt are all the arrows of thy quiver in comparison with those of guilt! [ Blair ]

It is from the remembrance of joys we have lost that the arrows of affliction are pointed. [ Mackenzie ]

Women of the world never use harsh expressions when condemning their rivals. Like the savage, they hurl elegant arrows, ornamented with feathers of purple and azure, but with poisoned points.