Equivalent Strength

Famous quotes containing the words equivalent and/or strength:

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

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

“The wise and just man will always feel that he stands on his own feet; that he imparts strength to the state, not receives security from it; and if all went down, he and such as he would quite easily combine in a new and better constitution.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)