But I think it's a little different in Europe, because 40 is really the best age for a woman. That's when we hit our peak and become this ripe fruit.
Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard.
I like the word OLD. Not senior, that's for proms. Older? Older than whom? 'Old' is honorable and ripe
What shelter to grow ripe is ours? What leisure to grow wise?
ASTONISHING, said Death. REALLY ASTONISHING. LET ME PUT FORWARD ANOTHER SUGGESTION: THAT YOU ARE NOTHING MORE THAN A LUCKY SPECIES OF APE THAT IS TRYING TO UNDERSTAND THE COMPLEXITIES OF CREATION VIA A LANGUAGE THAT EVOLVED IN ORDER TO TELL ONE ANOTHER WHERE THE RIPE FRUIT WAS.
Companions the creator seeks, not corpses, not herds and believers. Fellow creators the creator seeks -- those who write new values on new tablets. Companions the creator seeks, and fellow harvesters; for everything about him is ripe for the harvest.
If the time is not ripe, we have to ripen the time.
My resolve to die was not the whim of an hour. It was the ripe, sound fruit that had slowly grown to full size, lightly rocked by the winds of fate whose next breath would bring it to the ground.
There is no fruit which is not bitter before it is ripe.
Several ripe persimmons Left on the branches; Gray clouds come and go.
If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach.
The hour is ripe, and yonder lies the way.
No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.
In my garden the winds have beaten the ripe lilies; in my garden, the salt has wilted the first flakes of young narcissus.
Dharma is in your mind, not in the forest. Don't believe others, just listen to your mind. You don't have to go anywhere else. Wisdom is in yourself, just like a sweet ripe mango is already in a young green one.
The Ripe FigNow that You live here in my chest,anywhere we sit is a mountaintop. And those other images,which have enchanted peoplelike porcelain dolls from China,which have made men and women weepfor centuries, even those have changed now. What used to be pain is a lovely benchwhere we can rest under the roses. A left hand has become a right. A dark wall, a window. A cushion in a shoe heel,the leader of the community!Now silence. What we sayis poison to someand nourishing to others. What we say is a ripe fig,but not every bird that flieseats figs.
If an apple blossom or a ripe apple could tell its own story, it would be, still more than its own, the story of the sunshine that smiled upon it, of the winds that whispered to it, of the birds that sang around it, of the storms that visited it, and of the motherly tree that held it and fed it until its petals were unfolded and its form developed.
I thought I'd live to a ripe old age, because I always felt there was a lot to do. I had a driven feeling. I always thought in the present.
In my family, they were all big boozers, but they all lived to ripe old ages.
Fruits that blossom first will first be ripe.
