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• Cherry ripe, ripe, ripe, I cry, Full and fair ones,--come and buy!
  If so be you ask me where They do grow, I answer, there, Where my Julia's lips do smile,-- There 's the land, or cherry-isle....
• And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe, And then from hour to hour we rot and ro
  And thereby hangs a tale. -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), As You Like It -- Act ii, Sc. 7...
• He became mellow before he became ripe. -- Alexander Woolco
• Pauca sed matura. [Few but excellent (or ripe).] -- Gau
• Fast Ripe, Fast Rotten. Japanese Proverb
• A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination.
  But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special....
• When you get to be the age of George Burns, it is unwise to buy green bananas!
• She has a really opulent body; just ripe for dissecting.
• The aristocrat is the democrat ripe and gone to seed. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)