As the bee collecteth honey with great zest, so the fool collecteth wealth. — Kabir
When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees. — Abraham Lincoln
The honey is sweet, but the Bee stings. — George Herbert
Bee Image Quotes
Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. — Muhammad Ali
Give me spots on my apples, but leave me the birds and the bees, please. — Joni Mitchell
Life is too short to be anything but happy.
Killer Bee Quotes
Roll big blunts, a whole ounce of reefer
Rocked that 'Black and Yellow' before Wiz Khalifa
It's a killer bee color scheme — Ghostface Killah
Tell me doctor, with all of your defenses, are there any provisions for an attack by killer bees? — Unknown
I have a phobia of checking voicemail. I watched a lot of TV as a kid, and everything is, like, you're gonna get kidnapped, or somebody's gonna die, or killer bees are going to take you out. I'm a very anxious person. — Annie E. Clark
People must not turn into bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
The killer bees have gone, like rats deserting the Titanic. — Geraldo Rivera
I've got miracle lyrical capability all in me / With the agility to escape a killer bee colony. — Eminem
Kind of like love before first sight.” and “Butterflies in your stomach. That was such a crappy metaphor. More like killer bees. — Kami Garcia
Queen Bee Quotes
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 honey, the same way is the one who sits on the throne an equal only to himself, and no one's companion. — Franz Grillparzer
If a queen bee were crossed with a Friesian bull, would not the land flow with milk and honey? — Oliver St. John
To be successful, one has to be one of three bees: the queen bee, the hardest working bee, or the bee that does not fit in. — Suzy Kassem
Be someone you want to be around
The common bees will never use their sting upon the queen; if she is to be disposed of, they starve her to death, and the queen herself will sting nothing but royalty, nothing but a rival queen. — John Burroughs
The queen, I say, is the mother bee; it is undoubtedly complimenting her to call her a queen and invest her with regal authority, yet she is a superb creature and looks every inch a queen. — John Burroughs
If it were worth while to argue a paradox, one might maintain that nature regards the female as the essential, the male as the superfluity of her world. Perhaps the best starting-point for study of the Virgin would be a practical acquaintance with bees, and especially with queen bees. — Henry Adams
The flower doesn't dream of the bee. It blossoms and the bee comes.
I'm just getting better and better. It's just like a bunch of worker bees protecting the king bee, because I'm not a queen bee. I'm a king bee. — Shaquille O'Neal
A PHD is not the end of education. Education exists even among the bees who feed their queen only with the purest. — Sahndra Fon Dufe
Bumblebee Quotes
According to recognized aero technical tests, the bumblebee cannot fly because of the shape and weight of his body in relation to the total wing area. The bumblebee doesn't know this, so he goes ahead and flies anyway. — Igor Sikorsky
The turkey's eyes are such that he can see a bumblebee turn a somersault on the verge of the horizon. — Archibald Rutledge
The ultimate source of energy, the sun is ready to set. The leaves of the blooming lotus flower in the pond are losing their lustre. A bumblebee, sitting on that lotus is enjoying the romantic pleasure and murmuring passionate songs. — Manmohan Acharya
The only person you should try to be better than is the person you were yesterday
A sense of security, of well-being, of summer warmth pervades my memory. That robust reality makes a ghost of the present. The mirror brims with brightness; a bumblebee has entered the room and bumps against the ceiling. Everything is as it should be, nothing will ever change, nobody will ever die. — Vladimir Nabokov
According to aerodynamic laws, the bumblebee cannot fly. Its body weight is not the right proportion to its wingspan. Ignoring these laws, the bee flies anyway. — Andre Sainte-Lague
I am no more lonely than a single mullein or dandelion in a pasture, or a bean leaf, or sorrel, or a horse-fly, or a bumblebee. I am no more lonely than the Mill Brook, or a weathercock, or the north star, or the south wind, or an April shower, or a January thaw, or the first spider in a new house. — Henry David Thoreau
Be your own hero
The ball whizzes past like a bumblebee and the Indians are in the sea. — Navjot Singh Sidhu
Nature is what we see - the hill, the afternoon, squirrel, eclipse, the bumblebee. Nay, nature is heaven. Nature is what we hear... — Emily Dickinson
Evil does not question itself. Only Hope questions itself. — Craig Ferguson
My company mascot is the bumblebee. Because of its tiny wings and heavy body, aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly. But the bumblebee doesn't know that, so it flies anyways. — Mary Kay Ash
Busy Bee Quotes
To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, - — Emily Dickinson
A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity. — Alexander Pope
We once grew good without chemicals. We never grew food without bees.
The busy bee has no time for sorrow. — William Blake
So our student will flit like a busy bee through the entire garden of literature, light on every blossom, collect a little nectar from each, and carry it to his hive. — Desiderius Erasmus
How doth the little busy bee
Improve each shining hour,
And gather honey all the day
From every opening flower! — Isaac Watts
I'd say a man is someone who is strong-minded, moral, genuine, just a good human beeing.
When I jumped off a roof in Cannes in a bee costume, I looked ridiculous. But this is my business; I have to humiliate myself. — Jerry Seinfeld
A bee is never as busy as it seems; it's just that it can't buzz any slower. — Kin Hubbard
It's not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy. — Catherine O'Hara
If a man does not go about his work with enthusiasm, it means that he has not yet found a work that he likes. Every mortal is a busy bee when he comes to the task that Destiny has set aside for him. — George Ade
Flower And Bee Quotes
Like the bee gathering honey from the different flowers, the wise person
accepts the essence of the different scriptures and sees only the good in all religions. — Mahatma Gandhi
This (presidential) system will not bear any resemblance to dictatorships under the same name in Africa and Asia, (It) will be unique to Turkey, it will be like a bee making honey, taking something from every flower and giving us a taste of a truly different honey. — Recep Tayyip Erdogan
The peach-bud glows, the wild bee hums, and wind-flowers wave in graceful gladness. — Lucy Larcom
It is not the bee's touching of the flower that gathers honey, but her abiding for a time upon the flower that draws out the sweet. It is not he that reads most, but he that meditates most, that will prove the choicest, sweetest, wisest and strongest Christian. — Thomas Brooks
I go to books and to nature as a bee goes to the flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey. — John Burroughs
If you are an ardent reader, seek not brilliant and erudite texts; otherwise the demon of haughtiness will strike your heart. But like a wise bee that gathers honey from flowers, so also through your reading obtain healing for your soul. — Ephrem the Syrian
never forget this moment, the hum of the bee, the saffron threads of the flower, the drawn blinds, nature's assiduousness and human cruelty. — Edna O'Brien
Taste may be compared to that exquisite sense of the bee, which instantly discovers and extracts the quintessence of every flower, and disregards all the rest of it. — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
In August, the large masses of berries, which, when in flower, had attracted many wild bees, gradually assumed their bright velvety crimson hue, and by their weight again bent down and broke their tender limbs. — Henry David Thoreau
To a lesser extent (they like) the whites and reds, but blues, yellows and oranges are the main bee flowers. Although there are very good white bee flowers - white sweet clover is the best honey plant in the world. — Chip Taylor
Honey Bee Quotes
The bee is more honored than other animals, not because she labors, but because she labors for others. — Saint John Chrysostom
For so work the honey bees, creatures that by a rule in nature teach the act of order to a peopled kingdom. — William Shakespeare
The little bee returns with evening's gloom, To join her comrades in the braided hive, Where, housed beside their might honey-comb, They dream their polity shall long survive. — Charles Tennyson Turner
Humility must always be doing its work like a bee making honey in the hive: without humility all will be lost. — Teresa of Avila
If one wants honey he must endure the sting of the bee. — Moroccan Proverbs
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 more than provident. Enough will not satisfy her, she must have all she can get by hook or crook. — John Burroughs
If all the bees made honey, there would be enough for even gypsies to eat — Greek Proverbs
As a bee without harming the flower, its colour or scent, flies away, collecting only the honey, even so should the sage wander in the village. — Buddha
Just as bees make honey from thyme, the strongest and driest of herbs, so do the wise profit from the most difficult of experiences. — Plato
Little Bee Quotes
Green little vaulter, in the sunny grass, Catching your heart up at the feel of June, Sole noise that's heard amidst the lazy noon, When ev'n the bees lag at the summoning brass. — Leigh Hunt
Bees are Satan's little German Shepherds. — Theo Von
So when I say that I am a refugee, you must understand that there is no refuge. — Chris Cleave
A scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived. — Chris Cleave
Even bees, the little almsmen of spring bowers, know there is richest juice in poison-flowers. — John Keats
I’m telling you, trouble is like the ocean. It covers two thirds of the world. — Chris Cleave
We must see all scars as beauty. Okay? This will be our secret. Because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, 'I survived'. — Chris Cleave
The first concert I ever went to was the Bee Gees. I don't know if you remember the Bee Gees. My mom took me. I was little. But my mom was a big disco fan, and - my mom took me to the Bee Gees. Looking back now, it's pretty embarrassing if your first concert was with your mom. — Rob Huebel
Sometimes I think of myself as a little bee. I go from one area of the studio to another and gather pollen and sort of stimulate everybody. I guess that’s the job I do. — Walt Disney
I found a little beetle, so that beetle was his name — A. A. Milne
Bumble Bee Quotes
Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway. — Mary Kay Ash
Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams. — Ashley Smith
Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams. — Ashley Smith
It was the bumble bee and the butterfly who survived, not the dinosaur. — Meridel Le Sueur
I find you in all small and lovely things; in the little fishes like flames in the green water, in the furred and stupid softness of bumble-bees fat as laughter, in all the chiming radiance of warmth and light and scent in the summer garden. — Winifred Holtby
When poets go off the boil, they sound like bumble bees; when critics do, they sound like sewing machines. — Mason Cooley
My hair does get really frizzy, so I use a de-frizzing serum from Bumble and Bumble, and also Moroccan Oil is some really good stuff. Plus, I can't live without my Burt's Bees lip balm! — Chloe Bridges
'Ms.' is a syllable which sounds like a bumble bee is breaking wind. — Hortense Calisher
just then a bee bumbled above us and stole our attention the way flying things can — Douglas Coupland
Bee Gees Quotes
Led Zeppelin didn't write tunes that everybody liked, they left that to the Bee Gees. — Wayne Campbell
I'm very proud of being a Bee Gee and am always aware that I'll be identified as a Bee Gee. — Robin Gibb
The Bee Gees were always heavily influenced by black music. As a songwriter, it's never been difficult to pick up on the changing styles of music out there, and soul has always been my favourite genre. — Robin Gibb
I was always the one left behind. Out in the streets, when they saw me they'd say, That's just one of the Bee Gees. — Maurice Gibb
I love Donna Summer, and I love ABBA. I love late 70s disco. I love the Bee Gees. I just love that period of recording. — Taylor Hawkins
Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer. — Kara DioGuardi
When I was younger, I was listening to a lot of Armenian music, you know, revolutionary music about freedom and protest. In the 70s I was listening to soul and the Bee Gees and ABBA, and funk. — Serj Tankian
Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk, I'm a woman's man: no time to talk. — Barry Gibb
There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme. — John Lennon
If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would have only four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man. — Albert Einstein
A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by One after one; the sound of rain, and bees Murmuring; the fall of rivers, winds and seas, Smooth fields, white sheets of water, and pure sky - I've thought of all by turns, and still I lie Sleepless. — William Wordsworth
The little bee returns with evening's gloom,
To join her comrades in the braided hive,
Where, housed beside their might honey-comb,
They dream their polity shall long survive.
Charles Tennyson Turner - A Summer Night in the Bee Hive
The happiness of the bee & the dolphin is to exist.
For man it is to know that & to wonder at it. — Jacques Yves Cousteau
The force that makes the winter grow Its feathered hexagons of snow , and drives the bee to match at home Their calculated honeycomb, Is abacus and rose combined. An icy sweetness fills my mind , A sense that under thing and wing Lies, taut yet living , coiled, the spring . — Jacob Bronowski
Believe it or not the war on Iraq is based on a sound scientific principle, The bee hive principle. Which clearly states that if you are stung by a bee, you should follow it back to its nest and then proceed to beat nest to a pulp with a baseball bat until the stripey little turd has learned its lesson. — John Oliver
Ring-ting! I wish I were a primrose, A bright yellow primrose blowing in the spring! The stooping boughs above me, The wandering bee to love me, The fern and moss to creep across, And the elm-tree for our king! — William Allingham
Perhaps, after all, our best thoughts come when we are alone. It is good to listen, not to voices but to the wind blowing, to the brook running cool over polished stones, to bees drowsy with the weight of pollen. If we attend to the music of the earth, we reach serenity. And then, in some unexplained way, we share it with others. — Gladys Taber
We gon' float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. AH! Rumble, young man rumble! AH! — Drew Bundini Brown
Every blade of grass, every insect, ant, and golden bee, all so amazingly know their path, though they have not intelligence, they bear witness to the mystery of God and continually accomplish it themselves. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
All Nature seems at work. Slugs leave their lair
The bees are stirring, birds are on the wing,
And Winter slumbering in the open air,
Wears on his smiling face a dream of spring. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds - November! — Thomas Hood
The human tongue is more poisonous than a bee’s sting. — Vietnamese Proverbs
Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save those snails. — George Carlin
The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it. — Jacques Yves Cousteau
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