As long as you're green, you're growing. As soon as you're ripe, you start to rot.
Ray Kroc

He did not know what love was. And he did not know what good it was. But he knew he carried it around with him, a scabrous spot of rot, of contagion, for which there was no cure.
Harry Crews

However, if we examine the Canadian scene closely enough, we can see signs of this physical and spiritual rot settling into a number of our Canadian urban centres with a troubling spill-over into many of our more rural areas.
Alex Campbell

I'd rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home.
Florence King

It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.
Josh Billings

It is the same to me, whether I rot in the air or in the ground. The earth is the Lord's.
Andrew Melville

The age I'm at now, you go from being a young girl to suddenly you blossom into a woman. You ripen, you know? And then you start to rot.
Liv Tyler

Well, I don't feel that I've played so many bad guys, and I'm rot really drawn to villains per se. I think a lot of people relate to some of my characters' inner struggles.
Edward Norton

When you're green, your growing. When you're ripe, you rot.
Ray Kroc

Why not upset the apple cart? If you don't, the apples will rot anyway.
Frank Howard Clark