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
The bee is more honored than other animals, not because she labors, but because she labors for others. — Saint John Chrysostom
As the bee collecteth honey with great zest, so the fool collecteth wealth. — Kabir
When you're out to get the honey you don't go killing all the bees — Joe Strummer
If one wants honey he must endure the sting of the bee. — Moroccan Proverbs
Crowds of bees are giddy with clover
Crowds of grasshoppers skip at our feet,
Crowds of larks at their matins hang over,
Thanking the Lord for a life so sweet. — Jean Ingelow
The honey is sweet, but the Bee stings. — George Herbert
It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about? — Henry David Thoreau
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
Kindness is not a business. True kindness expects nothing in return and should never act with conditions.
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
Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.
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
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
Busy Work Quotes
If I have accomplished anything in life it is because I have been willing to work hard. — Madam C. J. Walker
If you don't find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die. — Warren Buffett
Seven Deadly Sins Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice. — Mahatma Gandhi
People do not buy goods and services. They buy relations, stories and magic.
I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it. — Bill Gates
The way I think I should stay out of trouble is by stayin' busy. With idle time comes a lot of biz, so the more my work load is heavy, I'll have no time to get into any trouble or makin' dis tracks or get into conversation about any other rappers. — Gucci Mane
Success isn't about how much money you make, it's about the difference you make in people's lives. — Michelle Obama
Instead of complaining about your circumstances, get busy and create some new ones.
Some jobs pay better, some jobs smell better, and some jobs have no business being treated like careers. But work is never the enemy, regardless of the wage. Because somewhere between the job and the paycheck, there’s still a thing called opportunity, and that’s what people need to pursue. — Mike Rowe
You are what you think. So just think big, believe big, act big, work big, give big, forgive big, laugh big, love big and live big. — Andrew Carnegie
It's time for the bully pulpit of the White House to bring the gangstas in, put them around the table and let them know that if they don't come up with loan modifications and keep people in their homes that they've worked so hard for, we're gonna tax them out of business. — Maxine Waters
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
The busy bee has no time for sorrow. — William Blake
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
Hebe's here, May is here!
The air is fresh and sunny;
And the miser-bees are busy
Hoarding golden honey. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee. — Marcus Aurelius
It's not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy. The bee is praised. The mosquito is swatted. — Mary O'Connor
How to extract its honey from the flower of the world. That is my everyday business. I am as busy as a bee about it. I ramble over fields on that errand and am never so happy as when I feel myself heavy with honey and wax. I am like a bee searching the livelong day for the sweets of nature. — Henry David Thoreau
Humility in this business [acting] isn't just a matter of being polite, it's kind of a matter of survival. You can't ever afford to think that you're the bee's knees, because you could always afford to be better. You have to always be searching for something better. — Michael Shannon
One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity. — Alexander Pope
I'm an atheist, I always thought, 'This is it.' If there is going to be a heaven, it should be on earth. I feel much happier than most people. I'm fairly stoic about death, but I'm not keen on dying if it's going to be long and protracted. I don't have dark nights of the soul, except occasionally. I'm such a little busy bee. — Edmund White
My business is words. Words are like labels,
or coins, or better, like swarming bees. — Anne Sexton
Pray look upon the plants and birds, the ants, spiders, and bees, and you will see them all exerting their nature, and busy in their station. Pray, shall not a man act like a man? — Marcus Aurelius
No good sensible working bee listens to the advice of a bedbug on the subject of business. — Elbert Hubbard
You see, years ago I was just an ordinary bee minding my own business, smelling flowers all day, and occasionally picking up part-time work in people's bonnets. Then one day I realized that I'd never amount to anything without an education and, being naturally adept at spelling, I decided that— — Norton Juster
A comely olde man as busie as a bee. — John Lyly
. . . God is too busy making the sun come up and go down and watching so the moon floats just right in the sky to be concerned with color . . . only man wants always God should be there to condemn this one and save that one. Always it is man who wants to make heaven and hell. God is too busy training the bees to make honey and every morning opening up all the new flowers for business. — Bryce Courtenay
Bees are not as busy as we think they are. They just can't buzz any slower. — Kin Hubbard
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