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
Science has finally discovered why bees hum--they don't know the words.
EVAN ESAR
attributed, 20,000 Quips & Quotes
No bees, no honey; no work, no money.
AMERICAN PROVERB
Even bees, the little almsmen of spring bowers,
Know there is richest juice in poison flowers.
JOHN KEATS
Isabella
He has a bee in his bonnet.
JOHN RAY
English Proverbs
The bees are buzzing, the birds have flown
Wild, wild honeycomb
BONNIE TYLER
"My! My! Honeycomb"
While Honey lies in Every Flower, no doubt,
It takes a Bee to get the Honey out.
ARTHUR GUITERMAN
A Poet's Proverbs
Here ever hum the golden bees
Underneath full-blossomed trees.
J.R. LOWELL
The Sirens
My banks they are furnished with bees,
Whose murmur invites one to sleep.
WILLIAM SHENSTONE
A Pastoral Ballad
Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still.
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
His labor is a chant,
His idleness a tune;
Oh, for a bee's experience
Of clovers and of noon!
EMILY DICKINSON
Poems
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
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 honey of a crowded hive,
Defended by a thousand stings.
WILLIAM COWPER
Olney Hymns
But when was ever honey made
With one bee in a hive?
THOMAS HOOD
The Last Man
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
In the nice bee, what sense, so subtly true,
From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew?
ALEXANDER POPE
Essay on Man
Honey is sweet, but the bee stings.
GEORGE HERBERT
Jacula Prudentum
Every bee's honey is sweet.
GEORGE HERBERT
Jacula Prudentum
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