Bees Quote by Plato

As bees extract honey from thyme, the strongest and driest of herbs, so sensible men often get advantage and profit from the most awkward…

— Plutarch

How to extract its honey from the flower of the world. That is my everyday business. I am as busy as a bee about…

— Henry David Thoreau

You can attract more bees with honey than you can with viniger

— Anonymous

We think we can make honey without sharing in the fate of bees, but we are in truth nothing but poor bees, destined to…

— Muriel Barbery

The world is plentiful with honey, but only the humble bee can collect it.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.

— William Cowper

As bees gather honey, so we collect what is sweetest out of all things and build...

— Rainer Maria Rilke

And the only reason for making honey is so as I can eat it.

— A. A. Milne

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

— Isaac Watts

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

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

No bees, no honey; no work, no money.

— Proverb

You can attract more bees with a spoonful of sugar than a cupful of vinegar.

— Saint Francis de Sales