Famous quotes containing the words reverse, edge and/or hit:
“They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.”
—Bible: Hebrew Isaiah, 2:4.
The words reappear in Micah 4:3, and the reverse injunction is made in Joel 3:10 (”Beat your plowshares into swords ...”)
“Truth that peeps
Over the glasses’ edge when dinner’s done.”
—Robert Browning (1812–1889)
“Attack is the reaction; I never think I have hit hard unless it rebounds.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
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