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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
Minds ripen at very different ages. -- Stevie Wonder
It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen. -- Brigitte Bardot
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
No greater thing 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
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
Bad thoughts quickly ripen into bad actions. -- Beilby Porteus
Pears cannot ripen alone. So we ripened together. -- Meridel Le Sueur
You mellow too much you ripen and rot. -- Woody Allen
Even melon grown in shade will ripen in the end. -- Roland Winters
The flower's are gone when the Fruits appear to ripen. -- Alexander Pope
If the times aren't ripe, you have to ripen the times. -- Dorothy Height
Revenge is a luscious fruit which you must leave to ripen. -- Emile Gaboriau
Great talents ripen late; the highest notes are hard to hear. -- Laozi
If the time is not ripe, we have to ripen the time. -- Dorothy Height
It is the fate of all things to ripen, and then to decay. -- James F. Cooper
I do believe that ideas ripen quickly when nourished by the blood of martyrs. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Manhood and sagacity ripen of themselves; it suffices not to repress or distort them. -- George Santayana
Chess is a forcing house where the fruits of character can ripen more fully than in life -- E. M. Forster
The power that makes grass grow, fruit ripen, and guides the bird in flight is in us all. -- Anzia Yezierska
Most fruits, if left alone on a tree, eventually do ripen, especially if they're not being yelled at. -- Firoozeh Dumas
Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes. -- Paracelsus
Yes, all my illusions will burn into illumination of joy, and all my desires ripen into fruits of love. -- Rabindranath Tagore
The strawberry grows underneath the nettle And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best Neighbour'd by fruit of baser quality. -- William Shakespeare
Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen. -- Alexandre Dumas
This is the method of genius, to ripen fruit for the crowd by those rays of whose heat they complain. -- Margaret Fuller
Acts of virtue ripen into habits; and the goodly and permanent result is the formation or establishment of a virtuous character. -- Thomas Chalmers
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

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