Better bow than break. [ Proverb ]

He's overshot in his own bow. [ Proverb ]

And every dew-drop paints a bow. [ Tennyson ]

To outshoot a man in his own bow. [ Proverb ]

And silver white the river gleams,
As if Diana in her dreams,
Had dropt her silver bow
Upon the meadows low. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Endymion ]

He that would win his dame must do
As love does when he draws his bow;
With one hand thrust the lady from,
And with the other pull her home. [ Butler ]

To draw a long bow (i.e. exaggerate). [ Proverb ]

All bow to virtue - and then walk away. [ De Finod ]

We frequently misplace esteem,
By judging men by what they seem,
To birth, wealth, power, we should allow
Precedence, and our lowest bow. [ Gay ]

He was born within the sound of Bow-bell. [ Proverb ]

He hath swallowed a stake; he cannot bow. [ Proverb ]

It's good to have two strings to your bow. [ Proverb ]

I have a good bow, but it's in the castle. [ Proverb ]

I have a good bow, but I cannot come at it. [ Proverb ]

It is no sure rule to fish with a cross-bow. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

It is good to have two strings to one's bow. [ Proverb ]

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

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

Thy pleasure points the shaft, and bends the bow;
The cluster blasts, or bids it brightly glow. [ Dr. Young ]

Every man is a volume if you know bow to read him. [ Channing ]

Truth dwells not in the clouds; the bow that's there
Doth often aim at, never hit the sphere. [ George Herbert ]

Air coming in at a window, is as bad as a cross-bow-shot. [ Proverb ]

Straining breaks the bow, and relaxation relieves the mind. [ Syrus ]

Here I and sorrows sit: Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it. [ William Shakespeare ]

As the Greek said, Many men know how to flatter, few men know bow to praise. [ Wendell Phillips ]

Woman is a delightful musical instrument, of which love is the bow, and man the artist. [ Stendhal ]

How true it is that, sooner or later, the most rebellious must bow beneath the yoke of misfortune! [ De Stael ]

Rigour pushed too far is sure to miss its aim, however good; as the bow snaps that is bent too stiffly. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

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 ]

If you would succeed in the world, it is necessary that, when entering a salon, your vanity should bow to that of others. [ Mme. de Genlis ]

Never argue. In society nothing must be: give only results. If any person differs from you, bow, and turn the conversation. [ Beaconsfield ]

Cupid's bow is, the Asiatics tell us, strung with bees, which are apt to sting sometimes fatally, those who meddle with it. [ Miss Edgeworth ]

For the bow cannot possibly stand always bent, nor can human nature or human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation. [ Cervantes ]

The expressive word quiet defines the dress, manners, bow, and even physiognomy of every true denizen of St. James and Bond street. [ N. P. Willis ]

Affect not to despise beauty, no one is freed from its dominion; but regard is not a pearl of price, it is fleeting as the bow in the clouds. [ Tupper ]

A man who is not able to make a bow to his own conscience every morning is hardly in a condition to respectfully salute the world at any other time of the day. [ Douglas Jerrold ]

Go on, spare no invectives, but open the spout of your eloquence, and see with what a calm, connubial resignation I will both hear and bow to the chastisement. [ Colley Cibber ]

Individuals may wear for a time the glory of our institutions, but they carry it not to the grave with them. Like raindrops from heaven, they may pass through the circle of the shining bow and add to its luster; but when they have sunk in the earth again, the proud arch still spans the sky and shines gloriously on. [ James A. Garfield ]

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 ]