Impatience is a great obstacle to success; he who treats everything with brusqueness gathers nothing, or only immature fruit which will never ripen.
Ah Fate, cannot a man Be wise without a beard? East, West, from Beer to Dan, Say, was it never heard That wisdom might in youth be gotten, Or wit be ripe before 't was rotten?
The fact is I am not having sex. But I feel absolutely ripe for the, what would you say? plucking?
Hee that eats the hard shall eate the ripe.
The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change.
Nothing is more certain than that a general profligacy and corruption of manners make a people ripe for destruction. A good form of government may hold the rotten materials together for some time, but beyond a certain pitch, even the best constitution will be ineffectual, and slavery must ensue.
The main distinction for fresh chillies is whether they are red or green, the difference being one of ripeness.
There is no fruit which is not bitter before it is ripe.
Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.
The Fox, when hee cannot reach the grapes, saies they are not ripe.
Truth is a fruit that can only be picked when it is very ripe.
The goldenrod is yellow, The corn is turning brown, The trees in apple orchards With fruit are bending down.
If the time is not ripe, we have to ripen the time.
America is ripe for a service revolution.
Fruits that blossom first will first be ripe.
If the times aren't ripe, you have to ripen the times.
We don't grow older, we grow riper.
Way out in the country tonight he could smell the pumpkins ripening toward the knife and the triangle eye and the singeing candle.
A great fig should look like it's just about to burst its skin. When squeezed lightly it should give a little and not spring back. It must be almost unctuously sweet, soft and wet.
A happy childhood is the pledge of a ripe manhood.
Nothing has ever remained of any revolution but what was ripe in the conscience of the masses.
Yes, all my illusions will burn into illumination of joy, and all my desires ripen into fruits of love.
I'm going to buy some green bananas because by the time I get home they'll be ripe.
The five kinds of grains are considered good plants, but if the grains are not ripe, they are worse than cockles. It is the same with regard to kindness, which must grow into maturity.
