And all their lives, like that, they'll have to rush Forwards in reverse, always holding their caps.

-Dunn, Douglas Eaglesham
  'Glasgow Schoolboys, Running Backwards'.

The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to producethe reverse of happiness.

-Mill,John Stuart
  Utilitarianism, ch.2.

Where is the antique glory now become, What whilom wont in women to appear? Where be the brave achievements doen by some? Where be the battles, where the shield and spear, And all the conquests, which them high did rear, That matter made for famous poet's verse, And boastful men so oft abashed to hear? Bene theyall dead, and laid in doleful hearse? Or doen they only sleep, and shall again reverse?

-Spenser, Edmund
  The Faerie Queen, bk.3, canto 4, stanza1.