quotations about bees
From Beavers, Bees should learn to mend their ways;
A Bee just Works; a Beaver Works and Plays.
ARTHUR GUITERMAN
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A Poet's Proverbs
Science has finally discovered why bees hum--they don't know the words.
EVAN ESAR
attributed, 20,000 Quips & Quotes
He has a bee in his bonnet.
JOHN RAY
English Proverbs
Full merrily the humble-bee doth sing,
Till he hath lost his honey and his sting;
And being once subdued in armed tail,
Sweet honey and sweet notes together fail.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Troilus and Cressida
No bees, no honey; no work, no money.
AMERICAN PROVERB
Here again we touch one of the thousand enigmas of the waxen city; and it is once more proved to us that the habits and the policy of the bees are by no means narrow, or rigidly predetermined; and that their actions have motives far more complex than we are inclined to suppose.
MAURICE MAETERLINCK
The Life of the Bee
Bees work for man, and yet they never bruise
Their Master's flower, but leave it, having done,
As fair as ever and as fit to use;
So both the flower doth stay, and honey run.
GEORGE HERBERT
Providence
Where the bee sucks, there suck I;
In a cowslip's bell I lie.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The Tempest
Even bees, the little almsmen of spring bowers,
Know there is richest juice in poison flowers.
JOHN KEATS
Isabella
Got among Bees and Ants are social systems found
So complex and well-order'd as to invite offhand
a pleasant fable enough: that once upon a time,
or ever a man was born to rob their honeypots,
bees were fully endow'd with Reason and only lost it
by ordering their life as to dispense with it;
whereby it pined away and perish'd of disuse.
ROBERT BRIDGES
The Testament of Beauty
While Honey lies in Every Flower, no doubt,
It takes a Bee to get the Honey out.
ARTHUR GUITERMAN
A Poet's Proverbs
The poison of the honey-bee
Is the artist's jealousy.
WILLIAM BLAKE
Ideas of Good and Evil
And we had sugar of our own,
Ages before its name was known.
Those early homes 'neath forest trees,
Were ever musical with bees.
THOMAS MILLER
Birds, Bees, and Blossoms
But the shining and elegant bees are, like women, indolent.
ARISTOTLE
The History of Animals
In the past, people around the world heard the buzzing of bees as voices of the departed, a murmured conveyance from the spirit world. This belief traces back to the cultures of Egypt and Greece, among others, where tradition held that a person's soul appeared in bee form when it left the body, briefly visible (and audible) in its journey to the hereafter.
THOR HANSON
Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees
The only time I ever believed that I knew all there was to know about beekeeping was the first year I was keeping them. Every year since I've known less and less and have accepted the humbling truth that bees know more about making honey than I do.
SUE HUBBELL
A Book of Bees: And How to Keep Them
The careful insect 'midst his works I view,
Now from the flowers exhaust the fragrant dew,
With golden treasures load his little thighs,
And steer his distant journey through the skies.
JOHN GAY
Rural Sports
Honey is sweet, but the bee stings.
GEORGE HERBERT
Jacula Prudentum
The murmer of a bee
A witchcraft yieldeth me.
If any ask me why,
'Twere easier to die
Than tell.
EMILY DICKINSON
Poems
Forget not bees in winter, though they sleep.
VITA SACKVILLE-WEST
"Bee-Master", The Land