Equivalent

Famous quotes containing the word equivalent:

“But then people don’t read literature in order to understand; they read it because they want to re-live the feelings and sensations which they found exciting in the past. Art can be a lot of things; but in actual practice, most of it is merely the mental equivalent of alcohol and cantharides.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)

“Divorce is the psychological equivalent of a triple coronary bypass.”
—Mary Kay Blakely (20th century)

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

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