Bees Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.

— John Muir

“Use Books as Bees Use Flowers.”

— cited by Honey Wax Booksellers' catalog

As a bee gathering nectar does not harm or disturb the color & fragrance of the flower; so do the wise move through the world.

— Gautama Buddha

The bee collects honey from flowers in such a way as to do the least damage or destruction to them, and he leaves them…

— Saint Francis de Sales

The bee fertilizes the flower it robs.

— Charles A. Beard

It is not the bee's touching on the flowers that gathers the honey, but her abiding for a time upon them, and drawing out…

— Joseph Hall

So our student will flit like a busy bee through the entire garden of literature, light on every blossom, collect a little nectar from…

— Desiderius Erasmus

The bee, though it finds every rose has a thorn, comes back loaded with honey from his rambles; and why should not other tourists…

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Bees are sometimes drowned in the honey which they collectso some writers are lost in their collected learning.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“As much as any creature on the planet, bees provide a win-win situation with their actions... I suppose we could all take a lesson…

— Jay Ebben

“Like the flower the bee must also die”

— Anonymous

“There is a pleasure a bee takes in collecting nectar and piling it into a hive. It knows well that the chores involved in…

— Gloria D. Gonsalves