When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

When the flower opens, the bees will come.

— Kabir

we know that the Furies do not come uninvited.

— Katherine Anne Porter

The muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited.

— Stephen King

When you demand nothing of the world, nor of God, when you want nothing, seek nothing, expect nothing, then the supreme state will come…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

I've had fans come and knock on my door. I'm usually polite, but I'm usually very direct and say, 'It's not cool that you…

— Gary Allan

You come here uninvited. Go back to your ships and go home.

— Hector

A flower doesn't count the number of bees that come nor does it pump up its smell just when you walk by. Its nature,…

— John Douillard

So long as the bee is outside the petals of the lily, and has not tasted the sweetness of its honey, it hovers around…

— Ramakrishna

The honey in the flower or lotus does not crave for bees; they do not plead with the bees to come. Since they have…

— Sathya Sai Baba

“The garden flourished that summer because Magnus's mother was determined to feed her family despite the depredations of the distant war. In the fall,…

— Susan Wiggs

Take from my palms, to soothe your heart, a little honey, a little sun, in obedience to Persephone's bees. You can't untie a boat…

— Osip Mandelstam

“Bees chase flowers.”

— Tracy L. Shreve

The little bee returns with evening's gloom, To join her comrades in the braided hive, Where, housed beside their might honey-comb, They dream their…

— Charles Tennyson Turner

As the bee collecteth honey with great zest, so the fool collecteth wealth.

— Kabir

Those who have not been stung will hardly fear a bee the same as those who have.

— Sara Sheridan