Bees Quotes · Page 9

The honey is guarded by bees.. The rose has thorns.. To enjoy the sweet & beautiful you can NOT be cowardly.

— Joseph Simmons

Or what? You'll release the dogs? Or the bees? Or the dogs with bees in their mouth and when they bark they…

— Nikhil Saluja

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

— James Russell Lowell

Whether you're talking about bees, dogs, or women, pain can come upon you quickly from either one of em.

— Phil Robertson

The botanist should make interest with the bees if he would know when the flowers open and when they close.

— Henry David Thoreau

Swallows have disappeared, bees are dying out because of pesticides that should have been banned long ago - it's a scandal.

— Brigitte Bardot

How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower!

— Isaac Watts

Be valyaunt, but not too venturous. Let thy attyre bee comely, but not costly.

— John Lyly

The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved, in a tear of the sisters of Phaeton, so that it seems enshrined in its…

— Martial

The Ancient Egyptians considered it good luck to meet a swarm of Bees on the road. What they considered bad luck I…

— Will Cuppy

[Lord Brougham's writings on the bee's cell contain] as striking examples of bad reasoning as are often to be met with in…

— James Whitbread Lee Glaisher

No Church-yard is so handsom, that a man would desire straight to bee buried there. [No churchyard is so handsome that a…

— George Herbert

There is a perfect ant, a perfect bee, but man is perpetually unfinished...Moreover, the incurable unfinishedness keeps man perpetually immature, perpetually capable…

— Eric Hoffer

Why can't we all just acknowledge that 'nature' - that is, 'sex' or 'erotic' images, which are really just 'attracters' are everywhere.…

— Sara Genn

Mine be a cot beside the hill; A bee-hive's hum shall soothe my ear; A willowy brook, that turns a mill, With…

— Samuel Rogers

Five thousand years have added no improvement to the hive of the bee, nor to the house of the beaver; but look…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Most impediments to scientific understanding are conceptual locks, not factual lacks. Most difficult to dislodge are those biases that escape our scrutiny…

— Stephen Jay Gould

At night I would lie in bed and watch the show, how bees squeezed through the cracks of my bedroom wall and…

— Sue Monk Kidd

My own eyes are not enough for me...I will see through the eyes of others. Reality, even seen through the eyes of…

— C. S. Lewis

There were so many miracles at work: that a blossom might become a peach, that a bee could make honey in its…

— Jane Hamilton

Now summer is in flower and natures hum Is never silent round her sultry bloom Insects as small as dust are never…

— John Clare

... store of bees, in a dry and warme bee-house, comely made of fir boards, to sing, and sit, and feede upon…

— William Lawson

“The only sounds here were lazy, ponderous, gentle sounds. A bee hung low in the warm afternoon haze, and he watched it…

— Michael Montoure

The honeysuckle was everywhere the day the letter arrived, like heat. Wild roses bloomed in hedges of tendrils and perfume. There were…

— Cathleen Schine

When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

— Abraham Lincoln

Melancholy held me hostage, and the bees built a hive of sadness in my soul.

— Laurie Halse Anderson

Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still.

— David Foster Wallace

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

— Zora Neale Hurston

As the bee collects nectar and departs without injuring the flower, or its color or fragrance, so let the sage dwell on…

— Gautama Buddha

Glory, glory, said the Bee, Hallelujah, said the Flea. Praise the Lord, remarked the Wren. At springtime all is born-again.

— Eric Metaxas

If the bees disappear, man would have only four years of life left.

— Albert Einstein

“Well, I will wear the bees, like Damon and Pythagoras – ho, a mere sixty thousand bees in the cabin don't signify, much.”

— Patrick O'Brian

Pretty things will swarm you like that, like your heart was a hive of electric bees.

— Katherine Dunn

Now I’m floating like a butterfly Stinging like a bee I earned my stripes I went from zero, to my own hero

— Katy Perry

In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew?

— Alexander Pope

For a while, some schools across the country were banning spelling bees. For obvious reasons, of course - steroids

— Craig Ferguson

I love Donna Summer, and I love ABBA. I love late '70s disco. I love the Bee Gees. I just love that…

— Taylor Hawkins

Bees are easier to keep than a dog or a cat. They are more interesting than gerbils. They can be kept anywhere.

— Sue Hubbell

It's disappointing to have lost - that's the bee's knees of it...

— Tim Henman

One's soldier should not abuse the enemy. 'Arouse a bee and it will come at you with the force of a dragon.

— Takeda Nobushige