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.
The time is ripe for the whole region to live in peace.
Nabil Elaraby
8.
Truth is a fruit that can only be picked when it is very ripe.
Voltaire
9.
When I was almost 13 I was ripe for religion. I was actually just plain ripe.
Kathie Lee Gifford
12.
That death is best which comes appropriately at a ripe age.
Propertius
14.
Status is always ripe for satire, status is always good for comedy.
Stephen Colbert