(12 quotes found)
“You mellow too much you ripen and rot”
Woody Allen
“There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them”
Joseph Roux
“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
“All fruits do not ripen in one season.”
Laurie Junot
“This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath,May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.”
William Shakespeare
“We are born to experience blossoming, ripening and wasting.”
Mariana Fulger
“This is an issue that is clearly starting to ripen almost as we speak.”
Dave Osiecki
“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is slow-ripening fruit.”
Aristotle
“You cannot pick the fruit and let it ripen later. That is when the flavor is lost.”
José Roberto Prado
“I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial.”
Thomas Jefferson