Ripe Quotes · Page 4

There is ripe fruit over your head.

— Henry David Thoreau

We are never ripe till we have been made so by suffering.

— Henry Ward Beecher

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

— Walt Whitman

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

— Paulo Coelho

That death is best which comes appropriately at a ripe age.

— Propertius

The Fox, when hee cannot reach the grapes, saies they are not ripe.

— George Herbert

A happy childhood is the pledge of a ripe manhood.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Fruits that blossom first will first be ripe.

— William Shakespeare

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

— Andre Gide

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

— Thiruvalluvar

“that the time is always ripe, that the place is here and the time is now.”

— Johan Galtung

The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change... [Truth's] mirror is turned forward, to reflect The promise of the future, not the…

— James Russell Lowell

Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.

— Ida Tarbell

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

— Nick Hertl

Men talk about Bible miracles because there is no miracle in their lives. Cease to gnaw that crust. There is ripe fruit…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Neither's the one you get, less you want me to see if your apple's ripe, yet. - Yoren”

— George R.R. Martin

The man who remains a fool even in advanced age is really a fool, just as the Indra-Varuna fruit does not become…

— Chanakya

I knew I couldn't go on like this, but I'd never been capable of simply nipping an anxiety in the bud. I…

— Marlen Haushofer

Divine in hookas, glorious in a pipe When tipp'd with amber, mellow, rich, and ripe;... Yet thy true lovers more admire by…

— Lord Byron

Without hard work, time itself becomes an ally of the primitive forces of social stagnation. So we must help time and realize…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The BBC came to me and they wanted to adapt the book [Three Musketeers] again, in the straightforward way, and I said…

— Adrian Hodges

We must not hope to be mowers, And to gather the ripe gold ears, Unless we have first been sowers And water…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

But I think it's a little different in Europe, because 40 is really the best age for a woman. That's when we…

— Juliette Binoche

Every week, I heave open a supermarket skip and find therein a more exotic shopping list of items than I could possibly…

— Tristram Stuart

In Indiana we had a queen we named Alice which lived to the ripe old age of eight years and two months…

— Jay Smith

Be a student. Stay open and willing to learn from everyone and anyone. Being a student means you have room for new…

— Wayne Dyer

The computer is a tool akin to a telescope or a microscope; a tool that opens vast frontiers of possibilities and brings…

— John Paul Caponigro

Something is not yet right and ripe in our human society at the beginning of the 21st century and third millennium: missing…

— Robert Muller

Of all intellectual friendships, none are so beautiful as those which subsist between old and ripe men and their younger brethren in…

— Philip Gilbert Hamerton

Your corn is ripe today, mine will be so tomorrow. 'Tis profitable for us both that I should labor with you today,…

— David Hume

Certain old men prefer to rise at dawn, taking a cold bath and a long walk with an empty stomach and otherwise…

— Ambrose Bierce

Any advice I could give to female directors would be the same as for males: There will be endless difficulties, some seemingly…

— Deniz Gamze Erguven

The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe.

— Torquato Tasso

The fact is I am not having sex. But I feel absolutely ripe for the, what would you say? plucking?

— Angelina Jolie

I'm going to buy some green bananas because by the time I get home they'll be ripe.

— Ryan Stiles

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

When I was almost 13 I was ripe for religion. I was actually just plain ripe.

— Kathie Lee Gifford

In judgement be ye not too confident, Even as a man who will appraise his corn When standing in a field, ere…

— Dante Alighieri

Decades of mismanagement have left our nation's forests vulnerable to insects and disease and ripe for catastrophic wildfires.

— Lauren Boebert

I would like to live to a ripe old age and raise watermelons in Wyoming.

— Lou Reed