Top 75 Ripen Quotes
#1. Acts of virtue ripen into habits; and the goodly and permanent result is the formation or establishment of a virtuous character.
Thomas Chalmers
#2. Chess is a forcing house where the fruits of character can ripen more fully than in life
E. M. Forster
#3. Vengeance is a delicious fruit, which must be allowed to ripen in order that it may be fully enjoyed.
Emile Gaboriau
#4. Those who have not distinguished themselves at school need not on that account be discouraged. the greatest minds do not necessarily ripen the quickest.
John Lubbock
#6. Most fruits, if left alone on a tree, eventually do ripen, especially if they're not being yelled at.
Firoozeh Dumas
#8. Sometimes the best lie was just the truth left to ripen on the branch too long.
Lou Berney
#10. Gathering the golden harvest through long summer days leaves a lasting sweetness to ripen in a man's soul. The smell of newly carted hay can be a lasting memory even in strange cities.
Margaret Campbell Barnes
#11. An individual man is a fruit which it cost all the foregoing ages to form and ripen. He is strong, not to do, but to live; not in his arms, but in his heart; not as an agent, but as a fact.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#12. Patience, piety, and salutary knowledge spring up and ripen under the harrow of affliction; before there is wine or oil, the grape must be trodden and the oil pressed.
Walter Savage Landor
#13. As you ripen, you'll notice that time is the weirdest thing in the world, that these surprises are relentless, and that getting older is not a stroll but an ambush.
Andrew Solomon
#14. Respect is a fulltime job, twenty-four seven. The way to behave in the world so that nobody's pride gets trampled, so that anger doesn't get a chance to ripen into disaster.
Melissa Lucashenko
#16. Man is at the bottom an animal, midway a citizen, and at the top divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top.
Henry Ward Beecher
#17. Ideas, like young wine, should be put in storage and taken up again only after they have been allowed to ferment and to ripen.
Richard Strauss
#18. Yes, all my illusions will burn into illumination of joy, and all my desires ripen into fruits of love.
Rabindranath Tagore
#19. If the times aren't ripe, you have to ripen the times.
Dorothy Height
#20. A wedding is earth and water and a species of irreducible light and the flat belly of a harbor and a mango about to ripen and fall into gravity's caress and the waves subsiding and resuming their concerto in a minor key and the rush hour canceled by the stun of auspicious beginnings.
Mark McMorris
#21. The yard was full of tomato plants about to ripen, and mint, mint, everything smelling of mint, and one fine old tree that I loved to sit under on those cool perfect starry California October nights unmatched anywhere in the world.
Jack Kerouac
#22. The flower's are gone when the Fruits appear to ripen.
Alexander Pope
#23. Communism, my dear, I said when I managed to get hold of a bunch of bananas for hers and let them ripen on the windowsill, given her just one each day so they'd last for a while
Alina Bronsky
#24. Anyone who thinks that all fruits ripen at the same time as strawberries, knows nothing of grapes.
Paracelsus
#25. I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen.
Henry Miller
#26. Such a large sweet fruit is a complete marriage, that it needs a very long summer to ripen in and then a long winter to mellow and season it.
Theodore Parker
#27. I don't respond well to mellow, you know what I mean, I have a tendency to ... if I get too mellow, I ripen and then rot.
Woody Allen
#28. This is the method of genius, to ripen fruit for the crowd by those rays of whose heat they complain.
Margaret Fuller
#29. Seafarers are used to being exploited. At sea, the captain moans at chandlers who supply ships with green bananas that will never ripen; at fruit that goes moldy obscenely fast; at sub-standard meat.
Rose George
#30. All the seasons run their race In this quiet resting-place; Peach, and apricot, and fig Here will ripen, and grow big; Here is store and overplus - More had not Alcinous!
Henry Austin Dobson
#32. To be an artist means: not to reckon and count; to ripen like the tree which does not force its sap and stands confident in the storms of Spring without fear lest no Summer might come after.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#33. Manhood and sagacity ripen of themselves; it suffices not to repress or distort them.
George Santayana
#34. Plant the trees just for beauty,
If flowers bloom or fruits ripen,
Enjoy it as a gift and appreciate nature as a universal giver.
Debasish Mridha
#35. The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages.
Cyrano De Bergerac
#37. Nothing great is produced suddenly, since not even the grape or the fig is. If you say to me now that you want a fig, I will answer to you that it requires time: let it flower first, then put forth fruit, and then ripen.
Epictetus
#38. The strawberry grows underneath the nettle And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best Neighbour'd by fruit of baser quality.
William Shakespeare
#39. Let him who gropes painfully in darkness or uncertain light, and prays vehemently that the dawn may ripen into day, lay this precept well to heart: "Do the duty which lies nearest to thee," which thou know to be a duty! Thy second duty will already have become clearer.
Thomas Carlyle
#40. Movements never quite exist, they are passages, intermediaries between two existences, moments of weakness, I expected to see them come out of nothingness, progressively ripen, blossom: I was finally going to surprise beings in the process of being born.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#41. Then it shall be a fruit that will ripen with time and patience.
Elise Kova
#42. Delude not yourself with the notion that you may be untrue and uncertain in trifles and in important things the contrary. Trifles make up existence, and give the observer the measure by which to try us; and the fearful power of habit, after a time, suffers not the best will to ripen into action.
Carl Maria Von Weber
#43. The age I'm at now, you go from being a young girl to suddenly you blossom into a woman. You ripen, you know? And then you start to rot.
Liv Tyler
#44. Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
Samuel Butler
#45. In short, immaturity is spoiled. And what is spoiled doesn't ripen. It goes bad early, gets bitter and withers on the vine.
Gina Barreca
#46. Great talents ripen late; the highest notes are hard to hear.
Laozi
#47. Like corn mortals ripen and fall; like corn They come up again." Nachiketa
Anonymous
#48. I think of my studio as a vegetable garden, where things follow their natural course. They grow, they ripen. You have to graft. You have to water.
Joan Miro
#50. I long believed that one was born a writer, that it was enough to allow to ripen within oneself for an appropriate number of years this precious seed, and that then one day the first book would appear, as had earlier, at the appointed hour, the first tooth. 53
Marcel Benabou
#51. Impatience is a great obstacle to success; he who treats everything with brusqueness gathers nothing, or only immature fruit which will never ripen.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#52. Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
Epictetus
#53. Each pineapple plant produces only one fruit per year. It can take up to two years for the pineapple to ripen, and it's important to wait, because once it's picked, it can't ripen any further. The unripe pineapple is not only horrible tasting but poisonous.
Kate Christensen
#54. The world has become lovelier. I am alone, and I don't suffer from my loneliness. I don't want life to be anything other than what it is. I am ready to let myself be baked in the sun till I am done. I am eager to ripen. I am ready to die, ready to be born again. The world has become lovelier.
Hermann Hesse
#55. The power that makes grass grow, fruit ripen, and guides the bird in flight is in us all.
Anzia Yezierska
#56. Great spiritual traditions are used as a means to ripen us, to bring us face to face with our life, and to help us to see in a new way by developing a stillness of mind and a strength of heart.
Jack Kornfield
#57. Revenge is a luscious fruit which you must leave to ripen.
Emile Gaboriau
#58. You are but a tiny cluster upon the vines of heaven, where the grapes are worlds; yet you hold the power to ripen your bitter berries and add to the eternal vintage of cosmic sweetness if so you will.
Eden Phillpotts
#59. The fruits of the earth are not brought to perfection immediately, but by time, rain and care; similarly, the fruits of men ripen through ascetic practice, study, time, perseverance, self-control and patience.
Anthony The Great
#60. If the time is not ripe, we have to ripen the time.
Dorothy Height
#61. Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.
Pindar
#62. Not every hour, nor every day, perhaps, can generous wishes ripen into kind actions; but there is not a moment that cannot be freighted with prayer.
William Mountford
#63. No American can understand the need for time
that is, simply space to breathe. If you have ten minutes to spare you should jam that full instead of leaving it
as space around your next ten minutes. How can anything ripen without those 'empty' ten minutes?
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#64. A girl sitting with us in the boat compared traveling over the water to the imperceptible gliding and progress of growth, that of fruit for example, which perhaps would have little desire to ripen if it knew to what end.
Robert Walser
#65. You mellow too much you ripen and rot.
Woody Allen
#66. Action is with the scholar subordinate, but it is essential. Without it, he is not yet man. Without it, thought can never ripen into truth.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#67. As though on a seedling whose blossoms ripen at different times, I had seen in old ladies, on that beach at Balbec, the dried-up seeds and sagging tubers that my girl-friends would become. But, now that it was time for buds to blossom, what did that matter?
Marcel Proust
#68. In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow and reap at once; but must prepare business, and so ripen it by degrees.
Francis Bacon
#69. I do believe that ideas ripen quickly when nourished by the blood of martyrs.
Mahatma Gandhi
#70. The light of unconditional love awakens the dormant seed potentials of the soul, helping them ripen, blossom, and bear fruit, allowing us to bring forth the unique gifts that are ours to offer in this life.
John Welwood
#71. Let the apple ripen
on the branch
beyond your need
to take it down.
David Whyte
#72. The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
Galileo Galilei
#73. Watermelons and Zen students grow pretty much the same way. Long periods of sitting till they ripen and grow all juicy inside, but when you knock them on the head to see if they're ready sounds like nothing's going on.
Peter Levitt
#74. Ripen your mind to the glorious history of the ages and revel in your mastery as today's youth shall look upon you as a sage.
Maximillian Degenerez
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