Reverse Wound

Famous quotes containing the words reverse and/or wound:

    “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)

    “A reading machine, always wound up and going,
    He mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.”
    —James Russell Lowell (1819–1891)