Famous quotes containing the words equivalent, buying and/or power:
“When the apple is ripe it will fall.”
—Irish proverb.
An English equivalent to this might be, “To everything there is a season.”
“Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.”
—Helen Rowland (1875–1950)
“Those lumbering horses in the steady plough,
On the bare field—I wonder why, just now,
They seemed terrible, so wild and strange,
Like magic power on the stony grange.”
—Edwin Muir (1887–1959)