Famous quotes containing the words reverse, edge and/or hit:
“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 (17431826)
“Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“Madam your wife and I didnt hit it off the only time I ever saw her. I wont say she was silly, but I think one of us was silly, and it wasnt me.”
—Elizabeth Gaskell (18101865)