Bees Quote by Anonymous

As a bee without harming the flower, its colour or scent, flies away, collecting only the honey, even so should the sage wander in…

— Gautama Buddha

Just as the bee takes the nectar and leaves without damaging the color or scent of the flowers, so should the sage act in…

— Gautama Buddha

As the bee collects nectar and departs without injuring the flower, or its color or fragrance, so let the sage dwell on earth.

— Gautama Buddha

“The true sage eats, sleeps, buys, sells marries, talks & laughs, but never - not for a breath - forgets the Divine.”

— Imam Abu Sa'īd

“The sages do not act from (any wish to be) benevolent; they deal with the people as the dogs of grass are dealt with.”

— Lao Tzu

“Tucker snorts. "Sage is a fighter, it spreads over the land like wildfire, sucking up all the water, the nutrients in the earth, until…

— Cynthia Hand

“Like the bees, we are - only looking for sweet honey in the flowers, we are - sensitive and at the same time carefully;…

— sir kristian goldmund aumann

“I am a fruitarian and I will only eat leaves picked by virgins in the moonlight”

— Walter Isaacson

“A village, even a small one, takes at least all night to burn, in the end it looks like an enormous flower, then there’s…

— Louis-Ferdinand Céline

“Beauty, the world seemed to say. And as if to prove it (scientifically) wherever he looked at the houses, at the railings, at the…

— Virginia Woolf

“There was that all-pervasive evening scent of cut grass and jasmine.”

— William Dalrymple

“Sage would survive. I'd survive. We were better off apart. Painful and quick, just like ripping off a Band-Aid. Well, more like gouging a…

— Brian Katcher