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.”

    Thus did he yield me in the shady night
    A wondrous and instructive light,
    Which taught me that under our feet there is,
    As o’er our heads, a place of bliss.
    Thomas Traherne (1636–1674)