quotations about bees
Honey is sweet, but the bee stings.
GEORGE HERBERT
Jacula Prudentum
The bees got their governmental system settled millions of years ago, but the human race is still groping.
DON MARQUIS
Archy and Mehitabel
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"
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
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
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"
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
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
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
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"