Equivalent Yield

Famous quotes containing the words equivalent and/or yield:

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

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

“Of the quaking recruit, three pitched battles make a grim grenadier; and he who shrank from the muzzle of a cannon, is now ready to yield his mustache for a sponge.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)