Ripening Quotes

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.

To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.

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

Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.