Ripe may refer to:
- Ripening, especially of fruit
- Ripeness in viticulture, how the term "ripe" is used in viticulture and winemaking
- RIPE, Réseaux IP Européens
- RIPE NCC, the Regional Internet Registry (RIR) for Europe
- Ripeness, a term in law
- Ripe, East Sussex, in England
- Ripe (AN), in Italy
- Ripe (film), a 1996 drama released in 1997 by Mo Ogrodnik
- Ripe (album), a 2007 album by Ben Lee
- Ripe (Banderas album), a 1991 album by Banderas
Persons with the name Ripe:
- Wilhelm Ripe (1818–1885), German painter
Famous quotes containing the word ripe:
“If twins are believed to be less intelligent as a class than single-born children, it is not surprising that many times they are also seen as ripe for social and academic problems in school. No one knows the extent to which these kind of attitudes affect the behavior of multiples in school, and virtually nothing is known from a research point of view about social behavior of twins over the age of six or seven, because this hasn’t been studied either.”
—Pamela Patrick Novotny (20th century)
“If you believe in the soul, do not clutch at sensual sweetness before it is ripe on the slow tree of cause and effect.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Perchance not he but Nature ailed,
The world and not the infant failed.
It was not ripe yet to sustain
A genius of so fine a strain,
Who gazed upon the sun and moon
As if he came unto his own,
And, pregnant with his grander thought,
Brought the old order into doubt.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)