Animal Quote by Emily Dickinson

“The bee is domesticated but not tamed.”

— William Longgood

We may like the honey without liking the bee, but this will not be ethical!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Just as the queen bee, the highest-ranking, peerless creature of her hive, is surrounded by lowly drones to please her, whereas the workers produce…

— Franz Grillparzer

Bees are a good omen to Kings, for they signify an obsequious people.

— Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa

Bees are animals who want above all to be free, who you can only woo with sweetness, but which you can't own. The basis…

— Alice Rohrwacher

The honey-bee's great ambition is to be rich, to lay up great stores, to possess the sweet of every flower that blooms. She is…

— John Burroughs

Beekeeping is farming for intellectuals.

— Sue Hubbell

Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The revery alone will do If bees are few.

— Emily Dickinson

“It is not easy for Brehons to decide concerning bees that have taken up their lodging in the trees of a noble dignitary; with…

— Dorothy Dunnett

“One who loves honey does not have the privilege of hating bees. One who adores roses does not have the privilege of loathing thorns.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

The flowers are full of honey, but only the bee finds out the sweetness.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe