Famous quotes containing the words reverse and/or thrust:
“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)
““I sawe Phoebus thrust out his golden hedde,
Upon her to gaze:
But when he sawe how broade her beames did spredde
It did him amaze.”
—Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599)