Ripe Quotes

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

  Publilius Syrus

  Fruit, Bitter

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• You want hot days to get your fruit ripe but then you want it to cool off nicely at night so that the grapes stay on the vine longer and develop complexity.

  Drew Bledsoe

  Night, Hot, Vines

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• 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.

  James Russell Lowell

  Past, Mirrors, Promise

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.48

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• I would say that my peak was making my first million at the ripe age of 29, after the first album.

  Anita Baker

  Age, Albums, Firsts

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• 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.

  Mencius

  Kindness, Maturity, Compassion

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• It is almost always wrong that the time isn't ripe to decide something. That is always said of difficult problems.

  Chris Patten

  Problem, Said, Difficult

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• Status is always ripe for satire, status is always good for comedy.

  Stephen Colbert

  Comedy, Satire

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. January 25, 2006.

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• The earth is ready, the time is ripe, for the authoritative expression of the feminine as well as the masculine interpretation of that common social consensus which is slowly writing justice in the State and fraternity in the social order.

  Anna Garlin Spencer

  Writing, Expression, Order

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• When the people are too much attached to savage independence, to be tolerant of the amount of power to which it is for their good that they should be subject, the state of society is not yet ripe for representative government.

  John Stuart Mill

  Government, People, Independence

  John Stuart Mill (1861). “Considerations on Representative Government”, p.108

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• First, I emptied the closets of your clothes, threw out the bowl of fruit, bruised from your touch, left empty the jars you bought for preserves. The next morning, birds rustled the fruit trees, and later when I twisted a ripe fig loose from its stem, I found it half eaten, the other side already rotting, or-like another I plucked and split open-being taken from the inside: a swarm of insects hollowing it. I'm too late, again, another space emptied by loss. Tomorrow, the bowl I have yet to fill.

  Natasha Trethewey

  Morning, Taken, Loss

  Natasha Trethewey (2007). “Native Guard”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  Andre Gide

  Maturity, Branches, Fruit

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.279, Routledge

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• The fact is I am not having sex. But I feel absolutely ripe for the, what would you say? plucking?

  Angelina Jolie

  Sex, Facts, Feels

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• A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Country, Men, Police

  W. Somerset Maugham (1930). “Cakes and Ale”

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