quotations about bees
Where the bee sucks, there suck I;
In a cowslip's bell I lie.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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The Tempest
But when was ever honey made
With one bee in a hive?
THOMAS HOOD
The Last Man
Every bee's honey is sweet.
GEORGE HERBERT
Jacula Prudentum
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 comely old man as busy as a bee.
JOHN LYLY
Euphues and His England
Bees work for man, and yet they never bruise
Their Master's flower, but leave it, having done,
As fair as ever and as fit to use;
So both the flower doth stay, and honey run.
GEORGE HERBERT
Providence
God's little epigrams, the Bees,
Are pointed and impartial.
Could Martial rival one of these?
No, not even Martial.
RICHARD R. KIRKE
The Bees
His labor is a chant,
His idleness a tune;
Oh, for a bee's experience
Of clovers and of noon!
EMILY DICKINSON
Poems
Honey is sweet, but the bee stings.
GEORGE HERBERT
Jacula Prudentum
The more I learned about pollinators, the more interested I became in the Queen of pollination: the 20,000 species of bees worldwide that are largely responsible for the seeds of rebirth of three-quarters of the flowering plants in the world. I discovered that assuming, as most people do, that "bee" equals "stinging honey bee" was even more ludicrous than assuming "dog" equals itty bitty Chihuahua.
PAIGE EMBRY
Our Native Bees: North America's Endangered Pollinators and the Fight to Save Them
But the shining and elegant bees are, like women, indolent.
ARISTOTLE
The History of Animals
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
The Queen Must Die: And Other Affairs of Bees and Men
The bees are buzzing, the birds have flown
Wild, wild honeycomb
BONNIE TYLER
"My! My! Honeycomb"
Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still.
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
For where's the state beneath the firmament
That doth excel the bees for government?
GUILLAUME DE SALLUSTE DU BARTAS
Divine Weeks and Works
Here ever hum the golden bees
Underneath full-blossomed trees.
J.R. LOWELL
The Sirens
No good sensible working bee listens to the advice of a bedbug on the subject of business.
ELBERT HUBBARD
Epigrams
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
To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,
One clover, and a bee,
And revery.
The revery alone will do,
If bees are few.
EMILY DICKINSON
Poems
My banks they are furnished with bees,
Whose murmur invites one to sleep.
WILLIAM SHENSTONE
A Pastoral Ballad