“The combination of little or no rain, extremely low humidity, strong winds and warm temperatures have made conditions ripe for a bad fire season.”
John Miller
“There is no fruit which is not bitter before it is ripe”
Publilius Syrus
“He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one;Exceedingly wise, fair-spoken and persuading;Lofty and sour to them that loved him not;But to those men that sought him sweet as summer.”
William Shakespeare
“When you're green, your growing. When you're ripe, you rot.”
Ray Kroc
“As long as you're green, you're growing. As soon as you're ripe, you start to rot.”
“Are you green and growing or ripe and rotting?”
“If you trap the moment before it's ripe, The tears of repentance you'll certainly wipe; But if once you let the ripe moment go, You can never wipe off the tears of woe”
William Blake
