quotations about bees
From Beavers, Bees should learn to mend their ways;
A Bee just Works; a Beaver Works and Plays.
ARTHUR GUITERMAN
A Poet's Proverbs
While Honey lies in Every Flower, no doubt,
It takes a Bee to get the Honey out.
ARTHUR GUITERMAN
A Poet's Proverbs
Science has finally discovered why bees hum--they don't know the words.
EVAN ESAR
attributed, 20,000 Quips & Quotes
The bees are buzzing, the birds have flown
Wild, wild honeycomb
BONNIE TYLER
"My! My! Honeycomb"
Every bee's honey is sweet.
GEORGE HERBERT
Jacula Prudentum
No bees, no honey; no work, no money.
AMERICAN PROVERB
The honey of a crowded hive,
Defended by a thousand stings.
WILLIAM COWPER
Olney Hymns
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
All things go to prove that it is not the queen, but the spirit of the hive, that decides on the swarm. With this queen of ours it happens as with many a chief among men, who though he appear to give orders, is himself obliged to obey commands far more mysterious, far more inexplicable, than those he issues to his subordinates.
MAURICE MAETERLINCK
The Life of the Bee
Forget not bees in winter, though they sleep.
VITA SACKVILLE-WEST
"Bee-Master", The Land
He has a bee in his bonnet.
JOHN RAY
English Proverbs
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 busy bee teaches two lessons: one is not to be idle, and the other is not to get stung.
EVAN ESAR
attributed, 20,000 Quips & Quotes
The poison of the honey-bee
Is the artist's jealousy.
WILLIAM BLAKE
Ideas of Good and Evil
His labor is a chant,
His idleness a tune;
Oh, for a bee's experience
Of clovers and of noon!
EMILY DICKINSON
Poems
The murmer of a bee
A witchcraft yieldeth me.
If any ask me why,
'Twere easier to die
Than tell.
EMILY DICKINSON
Poems
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
Their little bodies lodge a mighty soul.
VIRGIL
Georgics
For where's the state beneath the firmament
That doth excel the bees for government?
GUILLAUME DE SALLUSTE DU BARTAS
Divine Weeks and Works