"Like the bee, we distill poison from honey……" — Dag Hammarskjold

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• Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on… — 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… — Marcus Aurelius
• All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The… — 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… — Arthur Conan Doyle
• Here is a little forest Whose leaf is ever green; Here is a brighter garden, Where not a frost has… — Emily Dickinson
• According to aerodynamic laws, the bumblebee cannot fly. Its body weight is not the right proportion to its wingspan. Ignoring… — Unknown Author
• Like the bee its sting, the promiscuous leave behind them in each encounter something of themselves by which they are… — 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

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