“Like rowers, who advance backward.”
Book III, Ch. 1. Of Profit and Honesty
Essais (1595), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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“Life is like that. You live it forward but understand it backward.”
Variant: You live it forward, but understand it backward.
Source: Cutting for Stone
“Everything is backwards now, like out there is the the real world and this is the dream.”
Jake Sully
Avatar (2009)
“Sometimes providences, like Hebrew letters, must be read backwards.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 280.
“Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.”
“Sit not, like the figure on our silver coin, looking ever backward.”
1880s, The Scholar in a Republic (1881)
“Those who rebel advance, not those who obey.”
Original: Avanza chi si ribella, non chi obbedisce.
Source: prevale.net