Bees Quotes · Page 7

The sceptics, like bees, give their one sting and die.

— Anonymous

The role of third parties is to sting like a bee, then die.

— Richard Hofstadter

To bee beloved is above all bargaines.

— George Herbert

Bee not idle and you shall not bee longing.

— George Herbert

A grudge is like being stung to death by one bee.

— William Walton

“Bees have so much to offer us if we only listen.”

— Jay Ebben

To be successful, one has to be one of three bees: the queen bee, the hardest working bee, or the bee that…

— Suzy Kassem

If they make it illegal to wear the veil at work, bee keepers are going to be furious.

— Milton Jones

Bees are not as busy as we think they are. They jest can't buzz any slower.

— Kin Hubbard

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

— James Howell

The more learned and witty you bee, the more fit to act for Satan will you bee.

— John Cotton

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. The hands can't hit what the eyes can't see.

— Muhammad Ali

So on one hand, honey is an amazingly sophisticated and efficient food source. On the other hand, it's bee backwash.

— Alton Brown

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

— Takeda Shingen

The tools that a society uses to create and maintain itself are as central to human life as a hive is to…

— Clay Shirky

As a bee without harming the flower, its colour or scent, flies away, collecting only the honey, even so should the sage…

— Gautama Buddha

News is often dispersed as thoughtlessly and effectively as that pollen which the bees carry off (having no idea how powdery they…

— George Eliot

I always think of young Hollywood as its own little high school. There are the girls who have been working for a…

— Nicole Gale Anderson

Didn't help to ponder things that were forever gone. It only made a body restless and fill up with bees, all wanting…

— Laurie Halse Anderson

Everyone should have two or three hives of bees. Bees are easier to keep than a dog or a cat. They are…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Melancholy men of all others are most witty, which causeth many times a divine ravishment, and a kinde of Enthusiasmus, which stirreth…

— Aristotle

Like the bee gathering honey from the different flowers, the wise person accepts the essence of the different scriptures and sees only…

— Mahatma Gandhi

The trouble is with socialism, which resembles a form of mental illness more than it does a philosophy. Socialists get bees in…

— L. Neil Smith

My relationship to the desecration of the earth was very theoretical and intellectual until I got sick. I could never watch anything…

— Eve Ensler

I have never seen an adequate description anywhere of the amazement, the uncomprehending horror of the bulk of the American people which…

— Rebecca Harding Davis

And they brought an Owl, and a useful Cart, And a pound of Rice, and a CranberryTart, And a hive of silvery…

— Edward Lear

Fear is like a little garden spider that makes us jump back or the poor lost bee on the steering wheel that…

— Dan Millman

[Late-night host] is not really a job for a woman. You can't have kids and be a late-night host.I mean Samantha Bee…

— Chelsea Handler

Sometimes human beings are very much like bees. Bees are fiercely protective of their hive, provided you are outside it. Once you’re…

— Neil Gaiman

“Bees were busy, or at least endeavouring to look and sound busy, in the thyme by the trackside. Cloud shadows flickered over…

— Terry Pratchett

“The fun part is finding which thoughts, in that crazy beehive of emotion, are the ones that mass produce the honey.”

— Curtis Tyrone Jones

It had need to bee A wylie mouse that should breed in the cats eare.

— John Heywood

Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save those snails.

— George Carlin

I've avoided work all my life, you see. So, I'm like a bee. I go from flower to flower.

— Malachy McCourt

What is spiritual experience? A snowflake melting, a bee sucking honey, a fat man at a traffic light. Trivia.

— Frederick Franck

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

— Kabir

Homo sapiens are the only mammals who intentionally hold Beard Of Bees competitions.

— Dana Gould

His Labor is a Chant - His Idleness -a Tune - Oh, for a Bee's experience Of Clovers, and of Noon!

— Emily Dickinson

Behold, I am weary of my wisdom, like a bee that has gathered too much honey; I need hands outstretched to receive…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

When I jumped off a roof in Cannes in a bee costume, I looked ridiculous. But this is my business; I have…

— Jerry Seinfeld