Bee Quotes

300 quotes by 248 authors

Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway. — Mary Kay Ash
That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees. — Marcus Aurelius
We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after… — Marcus Aurelius
All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly,… — Charles A. Beard
Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. — Muhammad Ali
The sky was of the deepest blue, with a few white, fleecy clouds drifting lazily across it, and the air was filled with the low… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Here is a little forest Whose leaf is ever green; Here is a brighter garden, Where not a frost has been; In its unfading flowers… — Emily Dickinson
According to aerodynamic laws, the bumblebee cannot fly. Its body weight is not the right proportion to its wingspan. Ignoring these laws, the bee flies… — Andre Sainte-Lague
Like the bee its sting, the promiscuous leave behind them in each encounter something of themselves by which they are made to suffer. — Cyril Connolly
The world is plentiful with honey, but only the humble bee can collect it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The bee is more honored than other animals, not because she labors, but because she labors for others. — Saint John Chrysostom
Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement. — Oliver Goldsmith
If he [Thomas Edison] had a needle to find in a haystack, he would not stop to reason where it was most likely to be,… — Nikola Tesla
No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, there can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sweet is the breath of vernal shower,/ The bee's collected treasure sweet,/ Sweet music's melting fall, but sweeter yet/ The still small voice of gratitude. — Thomas Gray
The dandelions and buttercups gild all the lawn: the drowsy bee stumbles among the clover tops, and summer sweetens all to me. — James Russell Lowell
I don't trust the Bee Gee's because there's no way they could always be happy. — Jon Crosby
The honey-bee's great ambition is to be rich, to lay up great stores, to possess the sweet of every flower that blooms. She is more… — John Burroughs
When we have been to Holy Communion, the balm of love envelops the soul as the flower envelops the bee. — John Vianney
Every blade of grass, every insect, ant, and golden bee, all so amazingly know their path, though they have not intelligence, they bear witness to… — Fyodor Dostoevsky

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