Ripe Quotes

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

  Publilius Syrus

  Fruit, Bitter

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• We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspiring, Graduation, Hope

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Rushing into action, you fail. Trying to grasp things, you lose them. Forcing a project to completion, you ruin what was almost ripe.

  Laozi

  Failure, Rushing, Trying

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• No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Business, War, Philosophical

  "The Art of War" by Niccolo Machiavelli, Book 7, as translated by Neal Wood (1965), 1520.

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

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Men, Personality, Made

  Soren Kierkegaard (2015). “The Prayers of Kierkegaard”, p.134, University of Chicago Press

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• My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will.

  Paul Klee

  Hands, Ripe Fruit, Instruments

  Paul Klee, Felix Klee (1968). “The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918”, p.387, Univ of California Press

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• Fruits that blossom first will first be ripe.

  William Shakespeare

  Fruit, Firsts, Ripe Fruit

  William Shakespeare (1809). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.297

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• Pale purple as the bloom om a ripe plum, veined with the gold of late flowering gorse, set with small slender birches,just turning yellow,with red-berried rowans and thicket of bracken, the heath lay steeped in sunshine.

  Flora Thompson

  Sunshine, Purple, Yellow

  Flora Thompson (1979). “A Country Calendar, and Other Writings”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Even chimps understand the concept - if a troop of chimps enters a fruit tree, they will only pick the fruits that are ripe and leave the others growing. That is sustainability.

  Jane Goodall

  Tree, Growing, Fruit

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

  Walt Whitman

  Autumn, Giving, Juicy

  Walt Whitman (2015). “Drum-Taps: The Complete 1865 Edition”, p.57, New York Review of Books

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

  Frosty Westering

  Mcdonalds, Growing, Rotting

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

  Nabil Elaraby

  Regions, Whole

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• For youthful faults ripe virtues shall atone.

  William Wordsworth

  Faults, Blame, Virtue

  William Wordsworth (1994). “The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.105, Wordsworth Editions

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• Should [reformers] attempt more than the established habits of the people are ripe for, they may lose all and retard indefinitely the ultimate object of their aim.

  Thomas Jefferson

  People, May, Revolution

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• It is the mission of art to remind man from time to time that he is human, and the time is ripe, just now, today, for such a reminder.

  Ben Shahn

  Art, Men, Today

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• If the time is not ripe, we have to ripen the time.

  Dorothy Height

  Ifs

  "Dorothy Height, civil rights activist, dies at 98", www.foxnews.com. April 20, 2010.

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• Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.

  Ida Tarbell

  Understanding, Age, Cheerful

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• Do not neglect to bring your revolver, Russell. It may be needed, and it does us no good in your drawer with that disgusting cheese." "My lovely Stilton; it's almost ripe, too. I do hope Mr. Thomas enjoys it." "Any riper and it will eat through the woodwork and drop into the room below." "You envy me my educated tastes." "That I will not honour with a response. Get out the door, Russell.

  Laurie R. King

  Doors, Envy, Lovely

  Laurie R. King (2010). “The Beekeeper's Apprentice”, p.156, Allison & Busby

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• All through autumn we hear a double voice: one says everything is ripe; the other says everything is dying. The paradox is exquisite. We feel what the Japanese call "aware"--an almost untranslatable word meaning something like "beauty tinged with sadness.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Sadness, Autumn, Meaning Something

  Gretel Ehrlich (1985). “The solace of open spaces”, Viking Pr

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• My boy, you shall be everything in the world, animal, vegetable, mineral, protista, or virus, for all I care-before I have done with you-but you will have to trust my superior backsight. The time is not yet ripe for you to be a hawk... so you may as well sit down for the moment and learn to be a human being.

  T. H. White

  Animal, Boys, Done With You

  T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.65, Penguin

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• 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

  Patience, Art, Eye

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “God Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas”, p.4, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Peppermint swirled into my nostrils, sharp as glass, then raspberry almost to sweet, like too-ripe fruit. Apple, crisp and pure. Nuts, buttery, warm, earthy

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Sweet, Glasses, Nuts

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.208, Scholastic Inc.

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• 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.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, World, May

  William Shakespeare (2010). “As You Like It”, p.47, Palgrave Macmillan

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• If someone was to introduce hope and idealism into our political system, I think the tension that would create in other areas would certainly be ripe. You would think that if you bring oxygen to the organism, the organism lives. But there may be other organisms in there that thrive in darkness and in a more anaerobic environment. Watching those creatures writhe will always be interesting.

  Jon Stewart

  Thinking, Oxygen, Interesting

  "No News is Good News" by Adam Bulger, The Hartford Advocate, June 12, 2008.

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• Books are attracted to me. They make a beeline for me, and stick to me. I have been so fond of them that at last they have begun to reciprocate. In my hands books burst like ripe fruit. Like magic flowers they unfold their petals to show me the vital thought, the suggestive word, the confirming quotation, the decisive illustration.

  Sergei Eisenstein

  Flower, Book, Illustration

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