Reverse Edge Hit

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 (1743–1826)

    “And hiving wisdom with each studious year,
    In meditation dwelt, with learning wrought,
    And shaped his weapon with an edge severe,
    Sapping a solemn creed with solemn sneer.”
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    “Attack is the reaction; I never think I have hit hard unless it rebounds.”
    —Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)