Famous Quotes About Bees:
“It is not how busy you are, but why you are busy — the bee is praised, the mosquito is swatted.”
– Mary O’Connor
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– Mary O’Connor
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“No bees, no honey; no work, no money.”
– Proverb
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“No good sensible working bee listens to the advice of a bedbug on the subject of business.”
– Elbert Hubbard
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“If you want to gather honey, don’t kick over the beehive.”
– Dale Carnegie
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“Words are like bees – some create honey and others leave a sting.”
– Unknown
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“When you shoot an arrow of truth, dip its point in a pot of honey.”
– Arab Proverbs
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“It was the bumble bee and the butterfly who survived, not the dinosaur.”
– Meridel Le Sueur
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“When you go in search of honey, you must expect to be stung by bees.”
– Joseph Joubert
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“The busy bee has no time for sorrow.”
– William Blake
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“A bee is never as busy as it seems; it’s just that it can’t buzz any slower.”
– K. Hubbard
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Common Bee Quotes:
“That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.”
– Marcus Aurelius
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“Jim said that bees won’t sting idiots, but I didn’t believe that, because I tried them lots of times myself and they wouldn’t sting me.”
– Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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– Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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“Take time to smell the roses, and eventually, you’ll inhale a bee.”
– Unknown
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“When the flower blossoms, the bee will come.”
– Srikumar Rao
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“The only reason for being a bee that I know of is to make honey… And the only reason for making honey is so I can eat it.”
– Winnie the Pooh
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“Don’t wear perfume in the garden — unless you want to be pollinated by bees.”
– Anne Raver
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“Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.”
– John Muir
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“Should I refuse the honey because the bee stings?”
– Marty Rubin
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“Honey doesn’t lose its sweetness because it is made by bees that sting.”
– Matshona Dhliwayo
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“If bees only gathered nectar from perfect flowers, they wouldn’t be able to make even a single drop of honey.”
– Matshona Dhliwayo
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– Matshona Dhliwayo
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“When the bee comes to your house, let her have beer; you may want to visit the bee’s house someday.”
– African Proverbs
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“The lovely flowers embarrass me, they make me regret I am not a bee.”
– Emily Dickinson
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“Most people don’t have any idea about all the complicated life going on inside a hive. Bees have a secret life we don’t know anything about.”
– August
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“A bee is an exquisite chemist.”
– Royal Beekeeper to Charles II
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– Royal Beekeeper to Charles II
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Long Quotes About Bees:
“All I knew about bees when I started to write ‘The Secret Life of Bees’ was that they can live in a wall of your house, and that they make this incredible thing that I loved.”
– Sue Monk Kidd
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“I actually grew up in a house in which bees lived in one of the walls, and they lived there 18 years, in fact, so it wasn’t a fleeting thing.”
– Sue Monk Kidd
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“The bee collects honey from flowers in such a way as to do the least damage or destruction to them, and (s)he leaves them whole, undamaged and fresh, just as (s)he found them.”
– Saint Francis de Sales
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“The men of experiment are like the ant; they only collect and use. But the bee gathers its materials from the flowers of the garden and of the field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
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– Leonardo da Vinci
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“The bee is domesticated but not tamed.”
– William Longgood
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“Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee – His hands can’t hit what his eyes can’t see.”
– Muhammad Ali
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“Every saint has a bee in his halo.”
– Elbert Hubbard
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“If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would have only four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man.”
– Albert Einstein
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“Stop using chemicals in your garden. In the US more chemical tonnage is used on lawns and golf courses than on crops. Even people with apartments routinely use pesticides on their window boxes, killing every butterfly that visits.”
– Mark Daniels
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“If we lose bees, we may be looking at losing apples and oranges. We may be looking at losing a great deal of other crops, as well, and other animals that depend on those crops.”
– Annalee Newitz
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“Not a single bee has ever sent you an invoice. And that is part of the problem – because most of what comes to us from nature is free, because it is not invoiced, because it is not priced, because it is not traded in markets, we tend to ignore it.”
– Pavan Sukhdev
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Random Quotes About Bees:
“The bee’s life is like a magic well: the more you draw from it, the more it fills with water.”
– Karl Von Frisch
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– Karl Von Frisch
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“Bee to the blossom, moth to the flame; Each to his passion; what’s in a name?”
– Helen Hunt Jackson
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“I don’t mind bees and think we are all the better for having them around. I like the taste of honey.”
– Henry Rollins
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“Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don’t they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers.”
– Ray Bradbury
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“I mean, I feel like you get more bees with honey. But that doesn’t mean I don’t get frustrated in my life.”
– Beyonce Knowles
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“Pollination powers the planet.”
– Unknown
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“Bees are nature’s magicians.”
– Unknown
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“Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.”
– Robert Green Ingersoll
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“Such bees! Bilbo had never seen anything like them. ‘If one were to sting me,’ he thought,” I should swell up as big as I am!’.”
– J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
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“How does a queen bee behave? However, she wants to. But please don’t wait for someone to hold the door open for you when your own arms work perfectly fine – do it yourself.”
– Whitney Wolfe
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“Bee a honey and help save bees.”
– Unknown
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“Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still.”
– David Foster Wallace
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“To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee.”
– Emily Dickinson
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“The hum of bees is the voice of the garden.”
– Elizabeth Lawrence
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– Elizabeth Lawrence
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“Fame is a bee. It has a song. It has a sting. Ah, too, it has a wing.”
– Emily Dickinson
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Extra Quotes About Bees:
“I go to books and to nature as the bee goes to a flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey.”
– John Burroughs
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“Every moment there are a million miracles happening around you: a flower blossoming, a bird tweeting, a bee humming, a raindrop falling, a snowflake wafting along the clear evening air. There is magic everywhere. If you learn how to live it, life is nothing short of a daily miracle.”
– Sadhguru
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“The botanist should make interest with the bees if he would know when the flowers open and when they close.”
– Henry David Thoreau
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“For so work the honey bees, creatures that by a rule in nature teach the act of order to a peopled kingdom.”
– William Shakespeare
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“It takes a bee to get the honey out.”
– Arthur Guiterman
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“If you have no honey in your pot, have some in your mouth.”
– Benjamin Franklin
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“[Honey is sweet] and so is knowledge, but knowledge is like the bee that made that sweet honey, you have to chase it through the pages of a book.”
– Patricia Polacco
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“Every ant knows the formula of its ant-hill, every bee knows the formula of its beehive. They know it in their own way, not in our way. Only humankind does not know its own formula.”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky
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– Fyodor Dostoevsky
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“Bee stings are very educational.”
– Garth Nix
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“A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.”
– Benjamin Franklin
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“Bees that have honey in their mouths have stings in their tails.”
– Scottish Proverb
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“You never can tell with bees.”
– A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
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– A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
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“I don’t feel very much like Pooh today,” said Pooh. “There there,” said Piglet. “I’ll bring you tea and honey until you do.”
– A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
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Final Bee Quotes:
“The flower doesn’t dream of the bee. It blossoms and the bee comes.”
– Mark Nepo
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“The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.”
– Henry David Thoreau
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“Glory, glory, said the Bee, Hallelujah, said the Flea. Praise the Lord, remarked the Wren. At springtime all is born-again.”
– Eric Metaxas
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“The bee is more honored than other animals, not because she labors, but because she labors for others.”
– Saint John Chrysostom
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– Saint John Chrysostom
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“Be like the honeybee, anything it eats is clean, anything it drops is sweet, and the branch it sits upon does not break.”
– Imam Ali
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“Bees hide their honey in trees that are hollow. So we will find a bee to follow.”
– Janice Berenstain
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“The little bee returns with evening’s gloom, to join her comrades in the braided hive, there, housed beside their might honey-comb, they dream their polity shall long survive.”
– Charles Tennyson Turner
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“As a bee without harming the flower, its colour or scent, flies away, collecting only the honey, even so should the sage wander in the village.”
– Gautama Buddha
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– Gautama Buddha
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“Bees have so much to offer us if we only listen.”
– Jay Ebben
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“She liked to tell everybody that women made the best beekeepers, ’cause they have a special ability built into them to love creatures that sting. It comes from years of loving children and husbands.”
– Sue Monk Kidd
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“Worker bees can leave. Even drones can fly away. The Queen is their slave.”
– Chuck Palahniuk
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“The tools that a society uses to create and maintain itself are as central to human life as a hive is to bee life. Though the hive is not part of any individual bee, it is part of the colony, both shaped by and shaping the lives of its inhabitants.”
– Clay Shirky
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“For bees, the flower is the fountain of life; For flowers, the bee is the messenger of love.”
– Kahlil Gibran
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“The bee, from her industry in the summer, eats honey all the winter.”
– Proverb
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“How doth the little busy bee
Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day, From every opening flower!”
– Isaac Watts
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“Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.”
– Nietzsche
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– Nietzsche
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“The sweetest honey is loathsome in his own deliciousness and in the taste confounds the appetite.”
– William Shakespeare
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“Bees… by virtue of a certain geometrical forethought, knew that the hexagon is greater than the square and the triangle and will hold more honey for the same expenditure of material.”
– Pappus
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– Pappus
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“He is not worthy of the honey-comb
That shuns the hives because the bees have stings.”
– William Shakespeare
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– William Shakespeare
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“Place a beehive on my grave
And let the honey soak through.
When I’m dead and gone,
That’s what I want from you.
The streets of heaven are gold and sunny,
But I’ll stick with my plot and a pot of honey.
Place a beehive on my grave
And let the honey soak through.”
– Sue Monk Kidd
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“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
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“Those bees, which chose thy sweet mouth for their hive, to gather honey from thy works, survive.”
– Thomas Pecke
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“There is one masterpiece, the hexagonal cell,
that touches perfection.
No living creature, not even man,
has achieved, in the centre of his sphere,
what the bee has achieved in her own:
and were some one from another world
to descend and ask of the earth
the most perfect creation of the logic of life,
we should needs have to offer the humble comb of honey.”
– Maurice Maeterlinck
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“A swarm of bees in May
is worth a load Of hay,
But a swarm in July
is not worth a fly.”
– J. Ray – English Proverb 1670
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“One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care. Such is the quality of bees…”
– Leo Tolstoy
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