Bees Quotes

Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur.

Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place - service - social service - the ants creed, the bees creed.

But the rose leaves herself upon the brier, For winds to kiss and grateful bees to feed.

A sum of money is a leading character in this tale about people, just as a sum of honey might properly be a leading character in a tale about bees.

One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care. Such is the quality of bees.

Pray look upon the plants and birds, the ants, spiders, and bees, and you will see them all exerting their nature, and busy in their station. Pray, shall not a man act like a man?

People talk about mumblecore but I prefer bumblecore, hyper-realistic bee movies about how bees really are.

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.

He is not worthy of the honey-comb, that shuns the hives because the bees have stings.

Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!

There is nothing perfect...only life.

If there's a buzzing-noise, somebody's making a buzzing-noise, and the only reason for making a buzzing-noise that I know of is because you're a bee.

Imagine spending four billion years stocking the oceans with seafood, filling the ground with fossil fuels, and drilling the bees in honey production - only to produce a race of bed-wetters!

Speak with contempt of none, from slave to king, The meanest Bee hath, and will use, a sting.

I mean, I feel like you get more bees with honey. But that doesn't mean I don't get frustrated in my life.

In Tarzan I only had to worry about the bees

The bee fertilizes the flower it robs.

bees dig the plum blossoms

Honey bees are amazing creatures. I mean, think about it, do earwigs make chutney?

Hawthorn, white and odorous with blossom, framing the quiet fields, and swaying flowers and grasses, and the hum of bees.

When a bee stings, she dies. She cannot sting and live. When men sting, their better selves die. Every sting kills a better instinct. Men must not turn bees and kill themselves in stinging others.

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.

The killer bees have gone, like rats deserting the Titanic.

For where's the State beneath the Firmament, That doth excell the Bees for Government?

O bees, sweet bees!" I said; "that nearest field Is shining white with fragrant immortelles Fly swiftly there and drain those honey wells.

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.

... an opportunity to allow the bees in one's bonnet to buzz even more noisily than usual.

Goose [pen] bee [wax] and calf [parchment] govern the world. [Lat., Anser, apie, vitellus, populus et regna gubernant.]

Here come the hum the golden bees Underneath full blossomed trees, At once with glowing fruit and flowers crowned.

My epiglottis is full of bees!

A comely olde man as busie as a bee.

I don't trust the Bee Gee's because there's no way they could always be happy.

It was a great thing to be a human being. It was something tremendous. Suddenly I'm conscious of a million sensations buzzing in me like bees in a hive. Gentlemen, it was a great thing.

People say if bees die out, the world would end apparently. Now, I don't know if that's true, if that's some bee enthusiast who managed to write a good document and people believe this.

I carry about eight lip balms: Burts Bees, Rosebud Salve, Eos.

It is not caving in to the bees to stop poking a stick into their hive.

What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.

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.

Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.

Is there a polity better ordered, the offices better distributed, and more inviolably observed and maintained, than that of bees?

It's wonderful to me that bees have this simple, age-old thing going on.

The genteel thing is the genteel thing any time, if as be that a gentleman bees in a concatenation accordingly.

Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement.

No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, there can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.

The bees in my stomach are dead and getting used to it.

The solitary Bee Whose buzzing was the only sound of life, Flew there on restless wing, Seeking in vain one blossom where to fix.

Liberals, communists, socialists, look at people as workers. They look at 'em as ants, worker ants, worker bees and so forth, and they just plug 'em in to do jobs that need to be done.

People, in general, would rather die than forgive. It's that hard.

To be successful, one has to be one of three bees: the queen bee, the hardest working bee, or the bee that does not fit in.

Hebe's here, May is here! The air is fresh and sunny; And the miser-bees are busy Hoarding golden honey.