A Quote by Alphonse de Lamartine

True love is the ripe fruit of a lifetime.

Alphonse de Lamartine

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Alphonse de Lamartine
French - Poet
October 21, 1790 - February 28, 1869

For some it takes a lifetime to find true love, But for the lucky ones a lifetime is merely enough to share the love they've found.

Judith Viorst

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 if I were to fall overripe to the ground.

Kiki Dimoula

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

Thiruvalluvar

Spooning a seasonal fruit relish onto a plate of grilled king salmon is very much my style - flavorful, straightforward, and unfussy. I also like the way fresh, ripe fruit balances the richness of the salmon.

Tom Douglas

There is ripe fruit over your head.

Henry David Thoreau

There is no fruit which is not bitter before it is ripe.

Publilius Syrus

Truth is a fruit that can only be picked when it is very ripe.

Voltaire

Waiting is an art that our impatient age has forgotten. It wants to break open the ripe fruit when it has hardly finished planting the shoot. But all too often the greedy eyes are only deceived; the fruit that seemed so precious is still green on the inside, and disrespected hands ungratefully toss aside what has so disappointed them.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

A thought falls like a ripe fruit from the tree of idleness.

Natalie Clifford Barney

Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

Widows, like ripe fruit, drop easily from their perch.

Jean de la Bruyere

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

Andre Gide

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

Walt Whitman

Nothing shows one who his friends are like prosperity and ripe fruit.

Charles Dudley Warner

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

Andy Hargreaves

According to traditional wisdom in rural France, a baby in the womb should be compared to fruit on the tree. Not all the fruit on the same tree is ripe at the same time...we must accept that some babies need a much longer time than others before they are ready to be born.

Michel Odent

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