Bees Quote by Desiderius Erasmus

“Use Books as Bees Use Flowers.”

— cited by Honey Wax Booksellers' catalog

“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

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

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

— John Muir

“As the sun and each atom of ether is a sphere complete in itself, and yet at the same time only a part of…

— leo tolstoy

I go to books and to nature as the bee goes to a flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own…

— John Burroughs

I go to books and to nature as a bee goes to the flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own…

— John Burroughs

The bee's life is like a magic well: the more you draw from it, the more it fills with water

— Karl von Frisch

I have somewhere seen it observed that we should make the same use of a book that the bee does of a flower: she…

— Charles Caleb Colton

How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower!

— Isaac Watts

“But as of late, I have been consumed with the significant task of revising the latest edition of my Practical Handbook of Bee Culture…

— Mitch Cullin

“The men of experiment are like the ant, they only collect and use; the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own…

— Francis Bacon