Bees And Honey Quotes

• How doth the little busy bee
  Improve each shining hour,
  And gather honey all the day
  From every opening flower!

  Isaac Watts

  Flower, Shining, Littles

  Divine Songs for Children "Against Idleness and Mischief " l. 1 (1715) See Carroll 5

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• The bee is more honored than other animals, not because she labors, but because she labors for others.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Animal, Bees, Honey Bee

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• Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Life, Positive

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• Give and Take...
  For to the bee a flower is a fountain if life
  And to the flower a bee is a messenger of love
  And to both, bee and flower,
  the giving and the receiving is a need and an ecstasy.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Life, Nature

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• If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Men, Years, Earth

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• The busy bee has no time for sorrow.

  William Blake

  Time, Sorrow, Bees

  William Blake, William Butler Yeats (2002). “Collected Poems”, p.166, Psychology Press

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• The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Animal, Sunbeams, Honey Bee

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• For so work the honey bees, creatures that by a rule in nature teach the act of order to a peopled kingdom.

  William Shakespeare

  Order, Kingdoms, Honey Bee

  'Henry V' (1599) act 1, sc. 2, l. 187

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• One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care. Such is the quality of bees.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Nature, People, Quality

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• And the only reason for making honey is so as I can eat it.

  A. A. Milne

  Reason, Honey Bee, Winni The Pooh

  A. A. Milne (2012). “Winnie-the-Pooh”, p.11, Egmont UK

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• If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive.

  Dale Carnegie

  Motivational, Leadership, Work

  Dale Carnegie (2010). “How To Enjoy Your Life And Your Job”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Dream, Long, Littles

  Charles Tennyson Turner, James Spedding (1880). “Collected Sonnets, Old and New”

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• That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Friendship, Nature, Philosophical

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• A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Food, Catching Fire, Vinegar

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.117, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• The pedigree of honey does not concern the bee; A clover, any time, to him is aristocracy.

  Emily Dickinson

  Spring, Food, Animal

  "The pedigree of honey" l.1 (ca. 1884)

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• O bees, sweet bees!" I said; "that nearest field Is shining white with fragrant immortelles Fly swiftly there and drain those honey wells.

  Helen Hunt Jackson

  Sweet, White, Shining

  Helen Hunt Jackson (1872). “Verses”, p.46

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• 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

  Running, Flower, Men

  George Herbert (1835). “The Works of George Herbert: Poems”, p.121

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• Every saint has a bee in his halo.

  E. V. Lucas

  Halos, Saint, Honey Bee

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• If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.
  This is regarded as probably NOT a quote by Einstein.

  Albert Einstein

  Men, Years, Faces

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• Every little thing wants to be loved.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Love, Want, Littles

  Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.92, Penguin

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• What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bee and he told me about the butcher and my wife.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Humor, Kids

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• For the rest, whatever we have got has been by infinite labor, and search, and ranging through every corner of nature; the difference is that instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax, thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.

  Jonathan Swift

  Light, Two, Differences

  The Battle of the Books (1704) See Matthew Arnold 27

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• The two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.

  Jonathan Swift

  Light, Two, Culture

  The Battle of the Books (1704) See Matthew Arnold 27

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• Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Inspirational, Hope, Nature

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4655, Library of Alexandria

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• We think we can make honey without sharing in the fate of bees, but we are in truth nothing but poor bees, destined to accomplish our task and then die.

  Muriel Barbery

  Fate, Thinking, Honey

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