Reverse Wound

Famous quotes containing the words reverse and/or wound:

    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 ...”)

    The wound that’s made by fire will heal,
    But the wound that’s made by tongue will never heal.
    Tiruvalluvar (c. 5th century A.D.)