2.
If the times aren't ripe, you have to ripen the times.
Dorothy Height
3.
There is no fruit which is not bitter before it is ripe.
Publilius Syrus
6.
The Fox, when hee cannot reach the grapes, saies they are not ripe.
George Herbert
7.
Truth is a fruit that can only be picked when it is very ripe.
Voltaire
8.
The time is ripe for the whole region to live in peace.
Nabil Elaraby
11.
That death is best which comes appropriately at a ripe age.
Propertius
13.
Status is always ripe for satire, status is always good for comedy.
Stephen Colbert
14.
When I was almost 13 I was ripe for religion. I was actually just plain ripe.
Kathie Lee Gifford