Bowed Instrument

Famous quotes containing the words bowed and/or instrument:

    “Your eyes that once were never weary of mine
    Are bowed in sorrow under pendulous lids,
    Because our love is waning.”
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    Napoleon has not been conquered by men. He was greater than any of us. God punished him because he relied solely on his own intelligence until that incredible instrument was so strained that it broke.
    Jean Baptiste Bernadotte (1763–1844)