Equivalent

Famous quotes containing the word equivalent:

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

“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)

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

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