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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Pass then through this little space of time conformably to nature, and end thy journey in content, just as an olive falls off when it is ripe, blessing nature who produced it, and thanking the tree on which it grew.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Fall, Blessing, Journey

  Marcus Aurelius (2015). “Meditations”, p.44, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• He feared his maturity as it grew upon him with its ripe thought, its skill, its finished art; yet which lacked the poetry of boyhood to make living a full end of life.

  T. E. Lawrence

  Art, Maturity, Skills

  T. E. Lawrence (2015). “The Collected Works of Lawrence of Arabia (Unabridged): Seven Pillars of Wisdom + The Mint + The Evolution of a Revolt + Complete Letters (Including Translations of The Odyssey and The Forest Giant)”, p.183, e-artnow

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• When I go to the shore, I take along the poems of Pablo Neruda. I suppose it's because the poems are simultaneously lush and ripe and kind of lazy, yet throbbing with life - like summer itself.

  Tom Robbins

  Summer, Lazy, Kind

  "READING LIST: Beach Books That Don't Suck". www.esquire.com. June 1, 2006.

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• I believe that peace with the Palestinians is most urgent - urgent than ever before. It is necessary. It is crucial. It is possible. A delay may worsen its chances. Israel and the Palestinians are, in my judgment, ripe today to restart the peace process.

  Shimon Peres

  Believe, Israel, Delay

  Presidential Medal of Freedom Acceptance Address, delivered 13 June 2012, White House, Washington, D.C.

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• The moment is ripe for an experienced businessman to talk practical, prudent economics to the electorate - which is why Mitt Romney's political fortunes are steadily being resurrected from the grave.

  Camille Paglia

  Political, Prudent, Resurrection

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• Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern.

  Henry Miller

  Tree, Joy, Done

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.22, New Directions Publishing

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

  Ray Kroc

  Motivational, Growing Up, Rotting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Whoever you are: in the evening step out of your room, where you know everything; yours is the last house before the far-off: whoever you are. With your eyes, which in their weariness barely free themselves from the worn-out threshold, you lift very slowly one black tree and place it against the sky: slender, alone. And you have made the world. And it is huge and like a word which grows ripe in silence. And as your will seizes on its meaning, tenderly your eyes let it go.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Eye, Sky, Silence

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2014). “The Book of Images”, p.5, North Point Press

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