It's hard for a fellow to keep a chip on his shoulder if you allow him to take a bow.
Billy Rose

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
Kahlil Gibran

Let others hail the rising sun: I bow to that whose course is run.
David Garrick

Oh yeah, I mean, it wasn't a very good guitar, most good guitars have got thrust rods in the necks that you can adjust or that'll keep them in shape, you know keep them straight. This one just, well it turned into a bow and arrow after a couple of months.
Eric Clapton

Passion and strife bow down the mind.
Virgil

Politeness is as much concerned in answering letters within a reasonable time, as it is in returning a bow, immediately.
Philip Stanhope

Remember always that the composer's pen is still mightier than the bow of the violinist; in you lie all the possibilities of the creation of beauty.
John Philip Sousa

Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.
Bill Gates

Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?
William O. Douglas

That is one reason so many of the Japanese pictures are not good, they cannot spare all the footage necessary for that bow, which is repeated over and over again.
Sessue Hayakawa

The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.
Richard Wright

The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.
Miguel De Cervantes

The bow kept taut will quickly break, kept loosely strung, it will serve you when you need it.
Phaedrus

The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
William Butler Yeats

We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their bits - and we bow our heads. We even lose consciousness of the situation, we just submit. Any re-awakening of thought is then painful.
Simone Weil

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.
Carl T. Rowan

Wearing a bow tie is a statement. Almost an act of defiance.
Rick Kaplan

What we used to say was whoever had the bow tie got to lead the band. There was never any jealousy.
Pete Fountain

Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I but when the trees bow down their heads, the wind is passing by.
Christina Rossetti

You will soon break the bow if you keep it always stretched.
Norman Vincent Peale