Bees Quotes

437 quotes by 350 authors

The bees can abide no drones amongst them; but as soon as they begin to be idle, they kill them. — Plato
The bee and the serpent often sip from the selfsame flower. — Pietro Metastasio
Speak with contempt of none, from slave to king, The meanest Bee hath, and will use, a sting. — Benjamin Franklin
Nature attains perfection, but man never does. There is a perfect ant, a perfect bee, but man is perpetually unfinished. He is both an unfinished… — Eric Hoffer
Green little vaulter, in the sunny grass, Catching your heart up at the feel of June, Sole noise that's heard amidst the lazy noon, When… — Leigh Hunt
No good sensible working bee listens to the advice of a bedbug on the subject of business. — Elbert Hubbard
God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money, Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God… — William Cowper
The solitary Bee Whose buzzing was the only sound of life, Flew there on restless wing, Seeking in vain one blossom where to fix. — Robert Southey
As bees gather honey, so we collect what is sweetest out of all things and build... — Rainer Maria Rilke
For pitty, Sir, find out that Bee Which bore my Love away I'le seek him in your Bonnet brave, I'le seek him in your eyes. — Robert Herrick
Even bees, the little almsmen of spring bowers, know there is richest juice in poison-flowers. — John Keats
O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap Of murky buildings: climb with me the steep,-- Nature's… — John Keats
Revenge commonly hurts both the offerer and sufferer; as we see in a foolish bee, which in her anger invenometh the flesh and loseth her… — Joseph Hall
The greater the kindred is, the lesse the kindnesse must bee. — John Lyly
Man may be considered as a superior species of animal that produces philosophies and poems in about the same way a silkworm produces their cocoons… — Hippolyte Taine
He who does not attempt to make peace / When small discords arise, / Is like the bee's hive which leaks drops of honey /… — Akkineni Nagarjuna
The thing with kids is that you only get one chance to do it right. It's really important to share their gifts while they're discovering… — Laurence Fishburne
Again let us dream where the land lies sunny And live, like the bees, on our hearts' old honey, Away from the world that slaves… — Madison Cawein
The Bee Gees no longer exist. — Barry Gibb
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 polity… — Charles Tennyson Turner

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