Ripe Quotes

250 quotes by 228 authors

But I think it's a little different in Europe, because 40 is really the best age for a woman. That's when we hit our peak… — Juliette Binoche
There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready… — Charles Bukowski
The harvest moon has no innocence, like the slim quarter moon of a spring twilight, nor has it the silver penny brilliance of the moon… — Donald C. Peattie
The time was simply ripe for the disappearance of tonality. Naturally this was a fierce struggle; inhibitions of the most frightful kind had to be… — Anton Webern
When the time is ripe for certain things, these things appear in different places in the manner of violets coming to light in the early… — Farkas Bolyai
Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man-yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to… — Marcus Aurelius
Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard. — Walt Whitman
Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I want to die young at a ripe old age. — Ashley Montagu
Your corn is ripe today; mine will be so tomorrow. 'Tis profitable for us both, that I should labour with you today, and that you… — David Hume
Your corn is ripe today, mine will be so tomorrow. 'Tis profitable for us both that I should labor with you today, and that you… — David Hume
The tartness of his face sours ripe grapes. — William Shakespeare
For youthful faults ripe virtues shall atone. — William Wordsworth
Certain old men prefer to rise at dawn, taking a cold bath and a long walk with an empty stomach and otherwise mortifying the flesh.… — Ambrose Bierce
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Human beings have the capacity to learn to want almost any conceivable material object. Given, then, the emergence of a modern industrial culture capable of… — Jules Henry
You are good when you strive to give of yourself. Yet you are not evil when you seek gain for yourself. For when you strive… — Khalil Gibran
Foreshadowings of the principles and even of the language of [the infinitesimal] calculus can be found in the writings of Napier, Kepler, Cavalieri, Pascal, Fermat,… — W. W. Rouse Ball
It is notorious that the same discovery is frequently made simultaneously and quite independently, by different persons. Thus, to speak of only a few cases… — Francis Galton
The fields are still ripe for harvesting (cf. Jn 4:35); God continues to give the growth (cf. 1 Cor 3:6). We can and must believe,… — Pope Benedict XVI

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