The human fruit is always ripe for peeling.

Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

How do you know that the fruit is ripe? Simply because it leaves the branch.

— Andre Gide

Poetry relishes ripe fruit - but ripe is one thing and overripe quite another. That's something poetry doesn't like, so it couldn't care less…

— Kiki Dimoula

“A warrior of the light never picks fruit before it is ripe.”

— Paulo Coelho

Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard.

— Walt Whitman

“Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard." [ Give me the splendid silent sun ]”

— Walt Whitman

If it could only be like this always – always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper...

— Evelyn Waugh

“No one tries to stone a tree whose fruit is not ripe.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

Educational reforms are like ripe fruit. They rarely travel well.

— Andy Hargreaves

So may'st thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop Into thy mother's lap.

— John Milton

It is sparkling light, aromatic plants, a lofty palace, a flowing river, ripe fruit, a beautiful wife and abundant clothing, in an eternal abode…

— Muhammad

To use bitter words, when kind words are at hand, Is like picking unripe fruit when the ripe fruit is there.

— Thiruvalluvar

Fruits that blossom first will first be ripe.

— William Shakespeare

Here is a hero who did nothing but shake the tree as soon as the fruit was ripe. Does this seem to be too…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“On the third day, she smelled the fruit as soon as she came in. She followed the scent to the kitchen, and the peach…

— Allegra Goodman