#ripen

The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do. ↗

— Galileo Galilei

#around #bunch #dependent #else #grapes

I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen. ↗

— Henry Miller

#america #been #before #chance #fruit

It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#few #nothing #ripeness #says #spirit

Fulfill - you can far more than fulfill - the brightest anticipations of those who, in the name of human freedom, and in the face of threats that have ripened into terrible realities since, fought that battle which placed you where you now stand. ↗

— Robert Dale Owen

#battle #brightest #face #far #fought

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. ↗

— Aristotle

#friends #fruit #quick #ripening #slow

Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#does #down #keeping #lay #letters

It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth. ↗

— Francois Rabelais

#all things #father #feeling #revealed #ripens

There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them. ↗

— Joseph Roux

#ripens #slowness #them #which

In the course of her education she had gone through the history usually put into the hands of young people... now her ripened reason gave to her present study at least the advantage of novelty. ↗

— Charlotte Smith

#course #education #gave #gone #had

My aim is for ripeness of form. I want to make my forms so full, so juicy that one could add nothing more to them. ↗

— Henri Laurens

#aim #could #form #forms #full