Ripen Quotes

48 quotes by 45 authors

It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen. — Brigitte Bardot
The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had… — Cyrano de Bergerac
Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine. — Samuel Butler
Watermelons and Zen students grow pretty much the same way. Long periods of sitting till they ripen and grow all juicy inside, but when you… — Peter Levitt
English Bohemianism is a curiously unluscious fruit. ... Inside this hothouse, huge lascivious orchids slide sensuously up the sweating windows, passion-flowers cross-pollinate in wild heliotrope… — Alan Coren
Manhood and sagacity ripen of themselves; it suffices not to repress or distort them. — George Santayana
Man is at the bottom an animal, midway a citizen, and at the top divine. But the climate of this world is such that few… — Henry Ward Beecher
Great spiritual traditions are used as a means to ripen us, to bring us face to face with our life, and to help us to… — Jack Kornfield
Let him who gropes painfully in darkness or uncertain light, and prays vehemently that the dawn may ripen into day, lay this precept well to… — Thomas Carlyle
I want to take my rightful share of life by force, I want to give lavishly, I want love to flow from my heart, to… — Tayeb Salih
Even melon grown in shade will ripen in the end. — Roland Winters
I don't respond well to mellow, you know what I mean, I have a tendency to... if I get too mellow, I ripen and then… — Woody Allen
Great talents ripen late; the highest notes are hard to hear. — Laozi
Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes. — Paracelsus
Chess is a forcing house where the fruits of character can ripen more fully than in life — E. M. Forster
Ideas, like young wine, should be put in storage and taken up again only after they have been allowed to ferment and to ripen. — Richard Strauss
If the time is not ripe, we have to ripen the time. — Dorothy Height
If the times aren't ripe, you have to ripen the times. — Dorothy Height
It is the fate of all things to ripen, and then to decay. — James F. Cooper
The power that makes grass grow, fruit ripen, and guides the bird in flight is in us all. — Anzia Yezierska

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