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Here is a greedy man who keeps to himself
The beautiful pears ripe in his garden. — Matsuo Basho

She tasted like a Chateau Margaux, perfectly rounded, slightly plumy with an aftertaste of ripe berries. — Simon Okill

From here on in, Harry, I may be as woefully wrong as Humphrey Belcher who believed the time was ripe for a cheese cauldron. — J.K. Rowling

An hour before his world exploded like a ripe tomato under a stiletto heel, Myron bit into a fresh pastry that tasted suspiciously like urinal cake. — Harlan Coben

I like watching you scared; you just look like a ripe apple — M.F. Moonzajer

Life is a thump-ripe melon ... it's so sweet and such a mess ... — Greg Brown

A mother's hardest to forgive.
Life is the fruit she longs to hand you
Ripe on a plate. And while you live,
Relentlessly she understands you. — Phyllis McGinley

I feel my brains, like a pear, to see if it's ripe; it will be exquisite by September. — Virginia Woolf

The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe. — Torquato Tasso

Then they pull onto Route 66, heading east into a world that's ripe for saving — Neal Shusterman

I am involved in a lot of nonprofits. And when I reached the ripe old age of 60, I wanted to provide leadership to some I had been involved in. — David Rubenstein

You have to wait for a fruit to ripe before you harvest.
You must also learn to wait for the fulfillment of your visions. — Lailah Gifty Akita

What is the point of it all? Not leaving legacies. But being ripe. Being ripe. — Maurice Sendak

A happy childhood is the pledge of a ripe manhood. — Amos Bronson Alcott

America is ripe for a service revolution. — Harvey MacKay

I thought I'd live to a ripe old age, because I always felt there was a lot to do. I had a driven feeling. I always thought in the present. — Debbie Harry

It goes on top and breaks down,
It can emit a high or low sound.
Each atom of such noisy chute
Exhale the aroma of a ripe fruit. — Ana Claudia Antunes

That death is best which comes appropriately at a ripe age. — Propertius

Our God of Grace often gives us a second chance, but there is no second chance to harvest a ripe crop. — Kurt Von Schleicher

She got injun fire in her blood, as I hear tell it, and it seem to me Lucy about ripe to snap a crack in that jumping bean she call a head. — Ojo Blacke

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

Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe ... — Voltaire

Everyday can be extraordinary
And ripe,
Like a flower burst,
If the will is there. — Scott Hastie

But I think it's a little different in Europe, because 40 is really the best age for a woman. That's when we hit our peak and become this ripe fruit. — Juliette Binoche

Uttering foul words, while there are the sweetest of words, is like going for the unripe fruits while there are a lot of ripe ones. — Thiruvalluvar

As an apple is not in any proper sense an apple until it is ripe, so a human being is not in any proper sense a human being until he is educated. — Horace Mann

A photographer cannot be inexperienced, or too mature. A photographer ought to be half-ripe. — Nobuyoshi Araki

A ruined man fell from her hands like a ripe fruit, to lie rotting on the ground. — Emile Zola

America is ripe for lies and lethargy. The pure mountain air is going and gone. It is a huge burden and a sadness for us all. — Ralph Steadman

In judgement be ye not too confident, Even as a man who will appraise his corn When standing in a field, ere it is ripe. — Dante Alighieri

A thought falls like a ripe fruit from the tree of idleness. — Natalie Clifford Barney

We all wish to reach a ripe old age, but none of us are prepared to admit that we are already there. — Francisco De Quevedo

Things, gentlemen, are ripe for a phony Messiah, and when he comes, it's sure to be a bloody business. — Kurt Vonnegut

Sinclair Lewis may be ripe for a revival; his books raise several interesting issues of art and fashion. — Jane Smiley

True love is the ripe fruit of a lifetime. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Life is a thump ripe melon, so sweet and such a mess. — Greg Brown

Some things never leave a person:
scent of the hair of one you love,
the texture of persimmons,
in your palm, the ripe weight. — Li-Young Lee

The whole thing is just ripe to be a very good thing. — Joe

As our fathers said, you can tell a ripe corn by its look. — Chinua Achebe

Y'know,' he said, 'it's very hard to talk quantum using a language originally designed to tell other monkeys where the ripe fruit is. — Terry Pratchett

A basket of ripe fruit is holier than any prayer book. — Marty Rubin

Just because I cut a lark with that stiff-rumped Exciseman you seem to think I'm as good as rope-ripe! — Georgette Heyer

A broken life in the hands of God is ripe for blessing. — Joni Eareckson Tada

May you keep dreaming until the day you die. May imagination overtake memory. May you die young at a ripe old age. — Mark Batterson

Rumor forces us to act before we are ready, or ruins a situation before it becomes fully ripe. — Patrick Rothfuss

And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe.
And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot;
And thereby hangs a tale. — William Shakespeare

As for my next book, I won't write it till it has grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall. — Virginia Woolf

Fairies, arouse! Mix with your song Harplet and pipe, Thrilling and clear, Swarm on the boughs! Chant in a throng! Morning is ripe, Waiting to hear. — William Allingham

The world has more winnable people than ever before but it is possible to come out of a ripe field empty-handed. — Donald McGannon

With years a richer life begins, the spirit mellow: ripe age gives tones to violins, wine, and good fellows. — John Townsend Trowbridge

I want to die young at a ripe old age. — Ashley Montagu

Australia smelt of apples. Ripe, green, crisp apples. A smell so sharp and sweet it made my teeth tingle. — Andrea Levy

As that ripe summer turned to autumn, the sunlight cooled to a slantwise gleam, bronzing the beach grass and setting the beetle-bung trees afire. — Geraldine Brooks

A warrior of the light never picks fruit before it is ripe. — Paulo Coelho

Truth is a fruit that can only be picked when it is very ripe. — Voltaire

Just call me a family man and an actor who digs his whole scene, side interests and all. Just say I feel mighty good at the ripe old age of 27. — Bobby Darin

I thought I knew everything. There's the challenge fate loves best, isn't it? I was ripe for a fall and so ... the apple. — Megan Chance

The evening's rain had woken a hundred sleeping smells and made them ripe and strong again — George R R Martin

I would like to live to a ripe old age and raise watermelons in Wyoming. — Lou Reed

One does not wait for the "ripe" objective circumstances to make a revolution, circumstances become "ripe" through the political struggle itself. — Slavoj Zizek

She laughed at the stars, frightened but free, her terror as sharp as pain and as sweet as a ripe October apple — Stephen King

The world is ripe, and we'll pluck it like an apple from a tree. — Ron Rash

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

Muftis and bishops should be like ripe camembert cheeses - a bit on the nose and not for the faint-hearted, but memorable! — Michael Leunig

Extremely ripe things are not ideal for pickling. If you pour a hot liquid over super ripe strawberries, you're going to have strawberry soup. — Wylie Dufresne

If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our nation is ripe with a multitude of successful people, who have achieved much for themselves with little impact on anyone else — Fela Durotoye

Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ripe summer's sweetness dripped
in pearls from every tree
and into my opened heart
a little drop ran down. — Edith Sodergran

Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own. — Soren Kierkegaard

Truth is fruit on a tree; though ripe, one must still reach for it. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Forgive me, Your Grace. Are you suggesting a woman is some sort of ... piece of fruit to you? One squeeze, and you know if she's ripe? — Tessa Dare

You can, when Time is ripe, swope to your feet - at your full height - at a single gesture. Ready to go where? Why ... Wherever God motions. — Marita Bonner