Of a rich man who was niggardly he said, 'That man does not own his estate, but his estate owns him.'

Once when Bion was at sea in the company of some wicked men, he fell into the hands of pirates; and when the rest said, 'We are undone if we are known,'-'But I…

Bion insisted on the principle that 'The property of friends is common.'

Bion used to say that the way to the shades below was easy; he could go there with his eyes shut.