Michel de Montaigne Quotes About Flowers

Quotes about: Flowers

• I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that tied them together.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Philosophy, Flower, Together

  Michel de Montaigne, William Hazlitt (1845). “The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, Journey Through Germany and Italy. With Notes from All the Commentators, Biographical and Bibliographical Notices, &c. &c”, p.489

• I have gathered a posy of other men’s flowers and only the thread that bonds them is my own.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

• And one might therefore say of me that in this book I have only made up a bunch of other people's flowers, and that of my own I have only provided the string that ties them together.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Flower, Book, Ties

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

• The bees pillage the flowers here and there but they make honey of them which is all their own; it is no longer thyme or marjolaine: so the pieces borrowed from others he will transform and mix up into a work all his own.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Flower, Here And There, Thyme

  "Essays", Book I, Chapter XXV, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 598-600, 1922.

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