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 ...)
“His poor, crazy, deformed body was a mere Pandoras box, containing all the physical ills that ever afflicted humanity. This, perhaps, whetted the edge of his satire, and may in some degree excuse it.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (16941773)
“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)