Riper Quotes

#1. There has never been a riper time for extreme Islam to perish.

Paul Christensen

#2. These irregularities of judgment, I imagine, are found even in riper minds than Mary Garth's: our

George Eliot

#3. From fairest creatures we desire increase, That thereby beauty's rose might never die, But as the riper should by time decease, His tender heir might bear his memory:

William Shakespeare

#4. Youth would be too happy, might it add to its own beauty and felicity the wisdom and experience of riper years. Were it possible for it to realize the worth of time, as life's receding hours reveal it, how rapidly would it press on towards perfection!

Lydia Sigourney

#5. Voluptuous bloom and fragrance rare The summer to its rose may bring; Far sweeter to the wooing air The hidden violet of spring. Still, still that lovely ghost appears, Too fair, too pure, to bid depart; No riper love of later years Can steal its beauty from the heart.

Bayard Taylor

#6. The riper he is for glory, the more, like the ripe corn, he hangs down his head. The brighter and clearer is his light, the more he sees of the shortcomings and infirmities of his own heart. When first converted, he would tell you he saw but little of them compared to what he sees now. Would

J.C. Ryle

#7. Golf, like the measles, should be caught young, for, if postponed to riper years, the results may be serious.

P.G. Wodehouse

#8. We wove a web in childhood, A web of sunny air; We dug a spring in infancy Of water pure and fair; We sowed in youth a mustard seed, We cut an almond rod; We are now grown up to riper age- Are they withered in the sod?

Charlotte Bronte

#9. Ah, why Should we, in the world's riper years, neglect God's ancient sanctuaries, and adore Only among the crowd and under roofs That our frail hands have raised?

William C. Bryant

#10. The lessons of their early youth regulated the conduct of their riper years.

William Godwin

#11. We don't grow older we grow riper.

Pablo Picasso

#12. In childhood we all have ... a far higher sensibility for April and April evenings - a heartache for them, which in riper years is gradually and irretrievably consoled.

Alice Meynell

#13. The Christian is like the ripening corn; the riper he grows the more lowly he bends his head.

Alfred Bertram Guthrie

#14. The bees pillage the flowers here and there but they make honey of them which is all their own; it is no longer thyme or marjolaine: so the pieces borrowed from others he will transform and mix up into a work all his own.

Michel De Montaigne

#15. The Golden Thumb is not as good as the Oscar, but it is a lot of fun.

Roger Ebert

#16. Not trying is the surest way of achieving nothing at all.

Theodore Roosevelt

#17. It's good to know wave and particle alpha code, but more than that, the writer must go to the heart of life ...

John Geddes

#18. Beauty really was skin-deep. Wesley Rush may have had the body of a Greek god, but his soul was as black and empty as the inside of my closet. What a bastard!

Kody Keplinger

#19. Nothing betrays imbecility so much as the being insensible of it.

Thomas Jefferson

#20. Isn't the best way to save face to keep the lower part shut?

Steven Wright

#21. If I were to name my favorite pastime, I'd have to say talking about myself. I love it and I think most other people do too. We need, people like us, more listeners and less talkers.

Hedy Lamarr

#22. We are the only campaign that has beaten Donald Trump. And we're the only candidate that can beat Donald Trump. If you look at the Super Tuesday states, we're running neck and neck with Donald in states all across Super Tuesday.

Ted Cruz

#23. From an art perspective, I don't know how you get better than 'Beetlejuice.' In terms of originality and a look, it's 100% unique.

Michael Keaton