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Lo! sweeten'd with the summer light, The full-juiced apple, waxing over-mellow, Drops in a silent autumn night. All its allotted length of days The flower ripens in its place, Ripens and fades, and falls, and hath no toil, Fast-rooted in the fruitful soil. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Time ripens all things; no man is born wise. -- Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
The wise man does not grow old, but ripens. -- Victor Hugo
There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them. -- Joseph Roux
It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth. -- Francois Rabelais
1926 was the most significant year. Looking back, it seems that it was not just a year in the sense of time. It was a year of great realisation or awareness. It seems to me that at certain times of the history of man, the understanding of certain situations ripens. -- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Autumn ripens in the summer's ray. -- John Armstrong
Time ripens all things; no man is born wise. -- Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
The manuscript in the drawer either rots or ripens. -- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
When the apple ripens it falls, it doesn't know what else to do. -- Marty Rubin
creative thought seems prone to flower in symbols before it ripens to fruit. -- Maude Meagher
There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them. -- Joseph Roux
Good, as it ripens, becomes continually more different not only from evil but from other good. -- C. S. Lewis
Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is also false that the revolution ripens and comes to development only in the national soil. -- Leon Trotsky
The Fates are just: they give us but our own; Nemesis ripens what our hands have sown. -- John Greenleaf Whittier
It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning. -- Vincent Van Gogh
Self-remembrance, awareness of 'I am' ripens him powerfully and speedily. Give up all ideas about yourself and simply be. -- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
As the future ripens in the past,so the past rots in the future --a terrible festival of dead leaves. -- Anna Akhmatova
The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens apples, the other turns them to cider. -- Jane Hirshfield
The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens apples, the other turns them to cider."[Autumn] -- Jane Hirshfield
As the pearl ripens in the obscurity of its shell, so ripens in the tomb all the fame that is truly precious. -- Walter Savage Landor
Time ripens the substance of a life as the seasons mellow and perfect its fruits. The best apples fall latest and keep longest. -- Amos Bronson Alcott
Our judgment ripens; our imagination decays. We cannot at once enjoy the flowers of the Spring of life and the fruits of its Autumn. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected, ripens with the flower of the pleasure that concealed it. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When the population is filled with peace and harmony it ripens like fruit that turns to rot in a jiff if not preserved by change. -- John Lindberg
I believe in love. I believe it transforms, transports, and transcends. I believe it fine-tunes goodness, solidifies strength, ripens resolve, eradicates rage, alleviates stress, and elevates empathy. -- Lisa Kogan
Praise is God's sunlight in the heart. It destroys sin germs. It ripens the fruits of the Spirit. It is the oil of gladness that lubricates life's activities. -- Smith Wigglesworth
The stars once spoke to man. It is world destiny that they are silent now, but in their silence there grows and ripens what man speaks to the stars! -- Rudolf Steiner
Good native Taste, tho' rude, is seldom wrong, Be it in music, painting, or in song: But this, as well as other faculties, Improves with age and ripens by degrees. -- John Armstrong
I know the colour rose, and it is lovely, But not when it ripens in a tumour; And healing greens, leaves and grass, so springlike, In limbs that fester are not springlike. -- Dannie Abse

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