Equivalent Rank Commands

Famous quotes containing the words equivalent, rank and/or commands:

    “When the apple is ripe it will fall.”
    —Irish proverb.

    An English equivalent to this might be, “To everything there is a season.”

    “The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement.”
    —Anna Garlin Spencer (1851–1931)

    “Those commands of superiors which are contrary to our first duties are not to be obeyed.”
    —Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)