Bees Quotes II

BEES QUOTES II

quotations about bees

From Beavers, Bees should learn to mend their ways;
A Bee just Works; a Beaver Works and Plays.

ARTHUR GUITERMAN

A Poet's Proverbs

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While Honey lies in Every Flower, no doubt,
It takes a Bee to get the Honey out.

ARTHUR GUITERMAN

A Poet's Proverbs

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The bees are buzzing, the birds have flown
Wild, wild honeycomb

BONNIE TYLER

"My! My! Honeycomb"

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Science has finally discovered why bees hum--they don't know the words.

EVAN ESAR

attributed, 20,000 Quips & Quotes

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Every bee's honey is sweet.

GEORGE HERBERT

Jacula Prudentum

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The honey of a crowded hive,
Defended by a thousand stings.

WILLIAM COWPER

Olney Hymns

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No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

AMERICAN PROVERB

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Forget not bees in winter, though they sleep.

VITA SACKVILLE-WEST

"Bee-Master", The Land

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Got among Bees and Ants are social systems found
So complex and well-order'd as to invite offhand
a pleasant fable enough: that once upon a time,
or ever a man was born to rob their honeypots,
bees were fully endow'd with Reason and only lost it
by ordering their life as to dispense with it;
whereby it pined away and perish'd of disuse.

ROBERT BRIDGES

The Testament of Beauty

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In the past, people around the world heard the buzzing of bees as voices of the departed, a murmured conveyance from the spirit world. This belief traces back to the cultures of Egypt and Greece, among others, where tradition held that a person's soul appeared in bee form when it left the body, briefly visible (and audible) in its journey to the hereafter.

THOR HANSON

Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees

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He has a bee in his bonnet.

JOHN RAY

English Proverbs

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But the shining and elegant bees are, like women, indolent.

ARISTOTLE

The History of Animals

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All things go to prove that it is not the queen, but the spirit of the hive, that decides on the swarm. With this queen of ours it happens as with many a chief among men, who though he appear to give orders, is himself obliged to obey commands far more mysterious, far more inexplicable, than those he issues to his subordinates.

MAURICE MAETERLINCK

The Life of the Bee

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The poison of the honey-bee
Is the artist's jealousy.

WILLIAM BLAKE

Ideas of Good and Evil

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The murmer of a bee
A witchcraft yieldeth me.
If any ask me why,
'Twere easier to die
Than tell.

EMILY DICKINSON

Poems

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His labor is a chant,
His idleness a tune;
Oh, for a bee's experience
Of clovers and of noon!