It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I want to see me to the end working, living for myself. Ripeness is all. — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
October is the opal month of the year. It is the month of glory, of ripeness. It is the picture-month. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun. — John Keats Copy Share Image
Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Genius has no youth, but starts with the ripeness of age and old experience. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“I want the flower and fruit of a man; that some fragrance be wafted over from him to me, and some ripeness… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The ripeness of adolescence is prodigal in pleasures, skittish, and in need of a bridle. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
as the years go on a sense of deep patience comes over one; one seems to know the virtue of ripeness, and… — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
Men must endure Their going hence, even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
There is a moment in the history of every nation, when . . . the perceptive powers reach their ripeness and have… — Marsilio Ficino Copy Share Image
We postpone our literary work until we have more ripeness and skill to write, and we one day discover that our literary… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Autumn is the eternal corrective. It is ripeness and color and a time of maturity; but it is also breadth, and depth,… — Hal Borland Copy Share Image
Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer; there… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The confidentiality of the judicial process would not matter greatly to an understanding and evaluation of the legal system if the consequences… — Richard Posner Copy Share Image
The beginnings of moral enterprises in this world are never to be measured by any apparent growth. ... At length comes the… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
It is one of the greatest problems. It will appear very paradoxical, but this is true - before you can lose your… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another, and no sunrise finds us where left… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
One reason writers write is out of revenge. Life hurts; certain ideas and experiences hurt; one wants to clarify, to set out… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
“I reveled in the smallness, the coziness of an upstairs bedroom in a traditional American Cape Cod house the half-floor that forces… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
In Nepal, the phenomenon is reversed. Time is a stick of incense that burns without being consumed. One day can seem like… — Jeff Greenwald Copy Share Image
God gives us love. Something to love He lends us; but when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
