Quotes by Ripe Fruit There is ripe fruit over your head. Henry David Thoreau ripe-fruit fruit over-you Widows, like ripe fruit, drop easily from their perch. Jean de la Bruyere ripe-fruit widows fruit My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will. Paul Klee ripe-fruit instruments hands Fruits that blossom first will first be ripe. William Shakespeare ripe-fruit fruit firsts