For so work the honey bees, creatures that by a rule in…

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

If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live. This is regarded as probably…

— Albert Einstein

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…

— George Herbert

And the only reason for making honey is so as I can eat it.

— A. A. Milne

A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Helen Hunt Jackson

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

— Marcus Aurelius

Give and Take... For to the bee a flower is a fountain if life And to the flower a bee is a messenger of…

— Khalil Gibran

If honey bees become extinct, human society will follow in four years.

— Anonymous

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

Just as the seasons change and the honey bees pollinate the planet and make honey, we are also doing exactly what we are supposed…

— Bryan Kest

Because of the varroa mite, wild honey bees are now, for all practical purposes, extinct in the United States.

— Hannah Nordhaus

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

— Eddie Izzard

The two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.

— Jonathan Swift

For the rest, whatever we have got has been by infinite labor, and search, and ranging through every corner of nature; the difference is…

— Jonathan Swift