(48 quotes found)
“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
“Are you green and growing or ripe and rotting?”
Ray Kroc
“When you're green, your growing. When you're ripe, you rot.”
“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
“As long as you're green, you're growing. As soon as you're ripe, you start to rot.”
“Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic fruits fall off. My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will.”
Paul Klee
“How do you know when the fruit is ripe? - Simple: When it leaves the branch”
Andre Gide
“The tartness of his face sours ripe grapes.”
“Men must endure, their going hence even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all.”
“I heard a sound as of scraping tripe, / And putting apples wondrous ripe, / Into a cider- press's gripe.”
Robert Browning
