Top 389 Ripe Quotes & Sayings

The time is ripe for the whole region to live in peace.

The hour is ripe, and yonder lies the way.

And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe. And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot; And thereby hangs a tale.

Life is a thump ripe melon, so sweet and such a mess.

A happy childhood is the pledge of a ripe manhood.

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

A broken life in the hands of God is ripe for blessing.

Ripe vegetables were magic to me. Unharvested, the garden bristled with possibility. I would quicken at the sight of a ripe tomato, sounding its redness from deep amidst the undifferentiated green. To lift a bean plant's hood of heartshaped leaves and discover a clutch of long slender pods handing underneath could make me catch my breath.

Everyday can be extraordinary And ripe, Like a flower burst, If the will is there.

On you and me and everything, I bestow my ripe blessings and boisterous bliss.

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

If you trap the moment before it's ripe, The tears of repentence you'll certainly wipe; But if once you let the ripe moment go You can never wipe off the tears of woe.

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

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

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

There is ripe fruit over your head.

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

As our fathers said, you can tell a ripe corn by its look.

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

The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change; Then let it come: I have no dread of what Is called for by the instinct of mankind. Nor think I that God's world would fall apart Because we tear a parchment more or less. Truth is eternal, but her effluence, With endless change, is fitted to the hour; Her mirror is turned forward, to reflect The promise of the future, not the past. I do not fear to follow out the truth.

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

I have always thought of myself as an athlete - even at the ripe old age of 52.

What is the point of it all? Not leaving legacies. But being ripe. Being ripe.

It is, after all, far too easy to pinch and kick the bizarre Mormon Church; to say it's ripe for satire and parody is to say a Catholic schoolgirl is ripe for debauchery. It's like shooting polygamist fish in a barrel of coffee.

I'm ripe for the picking for the Scientologists - one of those creeps. Someone's got to find me. Some little weird cult can just pluck me up, because I'm ripe for the picking.

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

I want to die young at a ripe old age.

Are you green and growing or ripe and rotting?

America is ripe for a service revolution.

The prime of life is that fleeting time between green and over-ripe.

True love is the ripe fruit of a lifetime.

When you're green, your growing. When you're ripe, you rot.

Industries that are chaotic are ripe for innovation. They are open to anyone who has an idea.

You are either green and growing, or ripe and rotting.

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

Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.

Hee that eats the hard shall eate the ripe.

For youthful faults ripe virtues shall atone.

As long as you're green, you're growing. As soon as you're ripe, you start to rot.

The commercial space industry is enormous and ripe for disruption.

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

In my family, they were all big boozers, but they all lived to ripe old ages.

What wondrous life is this I lead! Ripe apples drop about my head.

Extremely ripe things are not ideal for pickling. If you pour a hot liquid over super ripe strawberries, you're going to have strawberry soup.

The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change.

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.

The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed.

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

I thought these grapes were ripe, but I see now they are quite sour.

The Ripe FigNow that You live here in my chest,anywhere we sit is a mountaintop.And those other images,which have enchanted peoplelike porcelain dolls from China,which have made men and women weepfor centuries, even those have changed now.What used to be pain is a lovely benchwhere we can rest under the roses.A left hand has become a right.A dark wall, a window.A cushion in a shoe heel,the leader of the community!Now silence. What we sayis poison to someand nourishing to others.What we say is a ripe fig,but not every bird that flieseats figs.

Noon, ripe as thunder and silent as thought, had fled unfingered.

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

The tartness of his face sours ripe grapes.

The time was ripe for Flower. The vibe was right.

Nothing has ever remained of any revolution but what was ripe in the conscience of the masses.

Cherry-ripe, ripe, ripe, I cry, Full and fair ones; come and buy. If so be you ask me where They do grow, I answer: There, Where my Julia's lips do smile; There's the land, or cherry-isle, Whose plantations fully show All the year where cherries grow.

And then he drew a dial from his poke, And looking with lack-lustre eye, Says very wisely, 'It is ten o'clock: Thus we may see', Quoth he, 'how the world wags: 'Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, And after one hour more 'twill be eleven; And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe, And then from hour to hour we rot and rot.

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

Ripe in wisdom was he, but patient, and simple, and childlike.

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