Quotes About The Longbow

#1. I took pains to relate to him many of my pleasantest adventures, by field and by flood, with the longbow.

J. Maurice Thompson

#2. In 1595, by order of the Privy Council, the English armed services abandoned the longbow and fought with muskets for the next two centuries and more. Nobody is sure why.

Edmund Morgan

#3. It even immunizes them against fear, if they honestly believe that a martyr's death will send them straight to heaven. What a weapon! Religious faith deserves a chapter to itself in the annals of war technology, on an even footing with the longbow, the warhorse, the tank, and the hydrogen bomb.

Richard Dawkins

#4. The lower your decolletage, the less the need for conversation.

Connie Brockway

#5. Why do you voluntarily deceive yourself and require to be told now for the first time what fate it is that you have long been labouring under? Take my word for it: since the day you were born you are being led thither.

Seneca.

#6. I love the idea of real-life experiences finding their way into fiction. I think that's really cool.

Joel Edgerton

#7. Time waits for no ovary.

Gretchen Rubin

#8. You don't find women with great confidence dressed as if they don't care.

Trinny Woodall

#9. If she'd been a color, she would have been bright green. If she'd been a scent, she would have been new paper. She was happy and intelligent and afraid of nothing.

Sarah Addison Allen

#10. These outlanders are peculiar, aren't they?"

Longbow smiled faintly. "They seem to think that we're the peculiar ones. Their lives are very complicated, but we try our best to keep everything simple. I'm not sure exactly why, but that seems to offend them for some reason.

David Eddings

#11. A longbow takes a massive draw for the arrow to go anywhere.

Luke Evans

#12. An honorable man would have given her up before she fell in love, choosing a small hurt over a bigger one later. But I wasn't that honorable. I wanted her more than I'd wanted anything in a long time, and I would have her until she couldn't bear it any longer.

C.D. Reiss

#13. These weren't encouraged in the city, since the heft and throw of a longbow's arrow could send it through an innocent bystander a hundred yards away instead of the innocent bystander at whom it was aimed.

Terry Pratchett

#14. Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to do.

Richard Dawkins

#15. I'm looking for a woman with the body of Kelly Brook and the mind of Stephen Fry.

Stephen Merchant