quotations about bees
For the bee, honey is the ultimate reality. It represents the fulfillment of her life mission, the triumph over her enemies, the continuity of the hive, the justification for working herself to death. Honey is to bees what money in the bank is to people--a measure of prosperity and well-being. But there is nothing abstract or symbolic about honey, as there is about money.
WILLIAM LONGGOOD & PAMELA JOHNSON
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The Queen Must Die: And Other Affairs of Bees and Men
Here ever hum the golden bees
Underneath full-blossomed trees.
J.R. LOWELL
The Sirens
The busy bee teaches two lessons: one is not to be idle, and the other is not to get stung.
EVAN ESAR
attributed, 20,000 Quips & Quotes
No good sensible working bee listens to the advice of a bedbug on the subject of business.
ELBERT HUBBARD
Epigrams
How doth the little busy bee
Improve each shining hour,
And gather honey all the day
From every opening flower!
ISAAC WATTS
Against Idleness
So sudden
The bees
They came flying
So violent
The bees
They came sly
So scary
The bees
They came wide
So wild
The bees
They came
crying
They said: "I take my time"
You take your time
Please take your time
I take my time
I take my time
ANIMAL COLLECTIVE
"Bees"
Where there are bees there are flowers, and wherever there are flowers there is new life and hope.
CHRISTY LEFTERI
The Beekeeper of Aleppo
Ah! woe is me; woe, woe is me,
Alack and well-a-day!
For pity, Sir, find out that bee
Which bore my love away.
I'll seek him in your bonnet brave,
I'll seek him in your eyes;
Nay, now I think th'ave made his grave
I' th' bed of strawberries.
ROBERT HERRICK
The Mad Maid's Song
A bee is never as busy as it seems; it's just that it can't buzz any slower.
KIN HUBBARD
attributed, The Modern Handbook of Humor
The bee's life is like a magic well: the more you draw from it, the more it fills with water.
KARL VON FRISCH
Bees: Their Vision, Chemical Senses and Language
The honey-bee that wanders all day long ...
Seeks not alone the rose's glowing breast,
The lily's dainty cup, the violet's lips,
But from all rank and noxious weeds he sips
The single drop of sweetness closely pressed
Within the poison chalice.
ANNE BOTTA
The Lesson of the Bee
Some say the bee stings: but I say, 'tis the bee's wax.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Henry VI
Men, like bees, want room. When the hive is overflowing, the bees will swarm, and will be likely to take up their abode where they find the best prospect for honey. In matters of this sort, men are very much like bees.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS
"Our Composite Nationality"