Ripe

Famous quotes containing the word ripe:

“These ripe pears
are bitter to the taste,
this spiced wine, poison, corrupt.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

“To use bitter words, when kind words are at hand,
Is like picking unripe fruit when the ripe fruit is there.”
—Tiruvalluvar (c. 5th century A.D.)

“Griff: If I let you set up shop in this neighborhood, the people would chop me like a ripe banana.
Kelly: Then why’d you buy my merchandise?
Griff: I ... I was thirsty!”
—Samuel Fuller (b. 1911)