He that will be served must bee patient.

Those who have not been stung will hardly fear a bee the same as those who have.

— Sara Sheridan

Arouse a bee and it will come at you with the force of a dragon.

— Takeda Shingen

Pray look upon the plants and birds, the ants, spiders, and bees, and you will see them all exerting their nature, and busy in…

— Marcus Aurelius

You see, years ago I was just an ordinary bee minding my own business, smelling flowers all day, and occasionally picking up part-time work…

— Norton Juster

As the bee collecteth honey with great zest, so the fool collecteth wealth.

— Kabir

It is hard to imagine a world without bees. It would be even harder to live in it.

— Barry Gardiner

When I heard that the bees were in trouble, the fact that they're disappearing and not coming back to the hive, which is a…

— Louie Schwartzberg

Precise, graceful, and generous, the poems in SuperLoop, seem to be born out of a deep, careful attention and a profound compassion. Sometimes the…

— Ada Limon

The little bee returns with evening's gloom, To join her comrades in the braided hive, Where, housed beside their might honey-comb, They dream their…

— Charles Tennyson Turner

“This time of year, the purple blooms were busy with life- not just the bees, but butterflies and ladybugs, skippers and emerald-toned beetles, flitting…

— Susan Wiggs

“Bees chase flowers.”

— Tracy L. Shreve

My banks they are furnish'd with bees, Whose murmur invites one to sleep.

— William Shenstone

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we…

— Henry David Thoreau

The Bee Gees are a fly-by-night sort of group.

— Barry Gibb

“I don't like to hear cut and dried sermons. No—when I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he…

— Abraham Lincoln