Hive Quotes
46 quotes by 42 authors
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That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.
— Marcus Aurelius
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You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.
— Jean Cocteau
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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
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Believe it or not the war on Iraq is based on a sound scientific principle, The bee hive principle. Which clearly states that if you…
— John Oliver
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Most people don't have any idea about all the complicated life going on inside a hive. Bees have a secret life we don't know anything…
— Sue Monk Kidd
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Here’s what I learned: First thing in the morning, before I have drowned myself in coffee, while I still have that sleepy brain I used…
— Merrill Markoe
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The breezes taste Of apple peel. The air is full Of smells to feel- Ripe fruit, old footballs, Burning brush, New books, erasers, Chalk, and…
— John Updike
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Democracy does not contain any force which will check the constant tendency to put more and more on the public payroll. The state is like…
— Plato
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When a honeybee dies it releases a death pheromone, a characteristic odour that signals the survivors to remove it from the hive. The corpse is…
— Carl Sagan
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What does not benefit the hive is no benefit to the bee.
— Marcus Aurelius
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I dare anyone to spend 10 years in the laugh-track that is Chuck Lorre's hive of oppression and not suffer some form of an emotional…
— Charlie Sheen
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Do not discount the psychic warmth of the hive.
— Chang-Rae Lee
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The aristocracy are not the farmers who work the land, and raise the produce, but are the mere consumers of the rent; and when compared…
— Thomas Paine
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Others, again, give us the mere carcass of another man’s thoughts, but deprived of all their life and spirit, and this is to add murder…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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So our student will flit like a busy bee through the entire garden of literature, light on every blossom, collect a little nectar from each,…
— Desiderius Erasmus
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When you undergo a visionary experience, what you are really doing is blowing your socially conditioned, 20th century, hive mind and allowing your brain to,…
— Steve Kubby
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It was a great thing to be a human being. It was something tremendous. Suddenly I'm conscious of a million sensations buzzing in me like…
— Karel Capek
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Humility must always be doing its work like a bee making honey in the hive: without humility all will be lost.
— Teresa of Avila
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I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made; Nine bean rows will…
— William Butler Yeats
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Prayer is not a stratagem for occasional use, a refuge to resort to now and then. It is rather like an established residence for the…
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Who Wrote These Hive Quotes
42 authors contributed a total of 46 Hive Quotes, led by these top contributors: