All the honey in the world is nothing without the…

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

— Sara Sheridan

“The bee is domesticated but not tamed.”

— William Longgood

There is nothing to be found in a beehive that is not submerged in a bee. And yet you can search a bee forever…

— Kevin Kelly

As for me, I know nothing else but miracles, Whether I walk the streets of Manhattan, Or dart my sight over the roofs of…

— Walt Whitman

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

— Llewellyn Rockwell

... these great improvements of modern times are blessings or curses on us, just in the same ratio as the mental, moral, and religious…

— Harriot Kezia Hunt

“It is not easy for Brehons to decide concerning bees that have taken up their lodging in the trees of a noble dignitary; with…

— Dorothy Dunnett

So long as the bee is outside the petals of the lily, and has not tasted the sweetness of its honey, it hovers around…

— Ramakrishna

Bees are sometimes drowned in the honey which they collectso some writers are lost in their collected learning.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“If you hide honey in the dark, bees will still find it.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

Take from my palms, to soothe your heart, a little honey, a little sun, in obedience to Persephone's bees. You can't untie a boat…

— Osip Mandelstam

“Bees chase flowers.”

— Tracy L. Shreve

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

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

— Kabir

There is a number among us, young and old, of all sorts almost among us, that swarm up and down towns, and woods, and…

— Thomas Shepard