Reverse Edge Hit

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 ...”)

    As I came to the edge of the woods,
    Thrush music—hark!
    Now if it was dusk outside,
    Inside it was dark.
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.
    Miguel De Cervantes (1547–1616)