“There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them”
Joseph Roux
“You mellow too much you ripen and rot”
Woody Allen
“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is slow-ripening fruit.”
Aristotle
“All fruits do not ripen in one season.”
Laurie Junot
“Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past?”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath,May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.”
William Shakespeare
“This is an issue that is clearly starting to ripen almost as we speak.”
Dave Osiecki