Quotes About Ripening

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It's sad to grow old, but nice to ripen.

It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.

The ripest fruit first falls.

He firmly believed that people were like pieces of meat; the longer they stewed, the softer they became. The tastier, too.

Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.

Such a large sweet fruit is a complete marriage, that it needs a very long summer to ripen in and then a long winter to mellow and season it.

The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.

The wise man does not grow old, but ripes.

Love that sets forth the soul like springtime and ripens it like summer. Love as rarely exists in reality, as if a master alchemist has taken it and distilled out all the impurities, every petty disenchantment, every unworthy thought, into a perfect elixir, sweet and deep and all-consuming.

I had begun to think my ripening body would wither untasted on the vine.

Every tree bears fruit in its sacred season.

It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

Great men are but common men more fully developed and ripened.

Mature affection, homage, devotion, does not easily express itself. Its voice is low. It is modest and retiring, it lies in ambush, waits and waits. Such is the mature fruit. Sometimes a life glides away, and finds it still ripening in the shade.

Trees bend down with plum and pear, Rosy apples scent the air, Nuts are ripening everywhere.

Age is of no importance unless you are a cheese.

Pears cannot ripen alone. So we ripened together.

We don't grow older we grow riper.

Most fruits, if left alone on a tree, eventually do ripen, especially if they're not being yelled at.

For a future buds in everything; Grown, or blown, Or about to break.

Art is a ripening, an evolution, an uplifting which enables us to emerge from darkness into a blaze of light.

Treated more like a vegetable than a fruit, plantains can be prepared in various ways depending on their stage of ripeness. Just like a banana, the further the fruit ripens, the more of its starch is converted to sugar.

The best wines take the longest to mature.