Reverse Angle Shot

Famous quotes containing the words reverse, angle and/or shot:

“During the late war [the American Revolution] I had an infallible rule for deciding what [Great Britain] would do on every occasion. It was, to consider what they ought to do, and to take the reverse of that as what they would assuredly do, and I can say with truth that I was never deceived.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

“Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

“Don’t sell the bearskin until you have shot the bear.”
—Swedish proverb, trans. by Verne Moberg.