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Your Quotes for 26 August 2005 - Arrows

A great deal of history is the record of battles fought. A few of those battles were significant turning points. One such was the English victory over the French at the Battle of Crécy on this day in 1346. The longbow had been around for a few thousand years, but had never been a decisive weapon until the English learned to use it well and trained a large part of the population. A typical English archer of the day could loose a dozen arrows in a minute, at a range of over 200 yards, with most shots hitting a target. Our quotes today on Arrows are, happily, less warlike in nature.

Convey love to thy friend as an arrow to the mark; not as a ball against the wall, to rebound back again.
     - Francis Quarles

A man convinced of his own merit will accept misfortune as an honor, for thus can he persuade others, as well as himself, that he is a worthy target for the arrows of fate.
     - François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, 1613 - 1680

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
     - Kahlil Gibran, 1883 - 1931

In one way an arrow moves, in another way the mind. The mind indeed, both when it exercises caution and when it is employed about inquiry, moves straight onward not the less, and to its object.
     - Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

Four things come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past, the neglected opportunity.
     - Omar Idn Al-Halif

The supreme irony of business management is that it is far easier for an inadequate CEO to keep his job than it is for an inadequate subordinate.... At too many companies, the boss shoots the arrow of managerial performance and then hastily paints the bullseye around the spot where it lands.
     - Warren Buffett

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