Famous quotes containing the words time and/or scales:
“A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of
peace.”
—Bible: Hebrew Ecclesiastes (l. III, 8)
“It cannot but affect our philosophy favorably to be reminded of these shoals of migratory fishes, of salmon, shad, alewives, marsh-bankers, and others, which penetrate up the innumerable rivers of our coast in the spring, even to the interior lakes, their scales gleaming in the sun; and again, of the fry which in still greater numbers wend their way downward to the sea.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)