quotations about bees
The bee that hath honey in her mouth, hath a sting in her tail.
JOHN LYLY
Euphues
In the nice bee, what sense, so subtly true,
From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew?
ALEXANDER POPE
Essay on Man
Where there are bees there are flowers, and wherever there are flowers there is new life and hope.
CHRISTY LEFTERI
The Beekeeper of Aleppo
No good sensible working bee listens to the advice of a bedbug on the subject of business.
ELBERT HUBBARD
Epigrams
My banks they are furnished with bees,
Whose murmur invites one to sleep.
WILLIAM SHENSTONE
A Pastoral Ballad
The only time I ever believed that I knew all there was to know about beekeeping was the first year I was keeping them. Every year since I've known less and less and have accepted the humbling truth that bees know more about making honey than I do.
SUE HUBBELL
A Book of Bees: And How to Keep Them
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
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
Burly dozing humblebee!
Where thou art is clime for me.
Let them sail for Porto Rique,
Far-off heats through seas to seek,
I will follow thee alone,
Thou animated torrid zone!
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
"The Humble-Bee"
Here again we touch one of the thousand enigmas of the waxen city; and it is once more proved to us that the habits and the policy of the bees are by no means narrow, or rigidly predetermined; and that their actions have motives far more complex than we are inclined to suppose.
MAURICE MAETERLINCK
The Life of the Bee
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
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"