Bees Quotes - Page 4

• All the lessons of history in four sentences: 1) Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power; 2) The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small; 3) The bee fertilizes the flower it robs; 4) When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

  Charles A. Beard

  Peace, Stars, Flower

  "Condensed History Lesson" by Arthur H. Secord, Readers' Digest, Volume 38, No. 226, February 1941.

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• People, in general, would rather die than forgive. It's that hard.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  People, Forgiving, Dies

  Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.277, Penguin

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• For pitty, Sir, find out that Bee Which bore my Love away I'le seek him in your Bonnet brave, I'le seek him in your eyes.

  Robert Herrick

  Eye, Brave, Bonnets

  Robert Herrick, Samuel Weber Singer (1856). “Hesperides: Or, The Works Both Humane and Divine of Robert Herrick ...”, p.254

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• Swallows have disappeared, bees are dying out because of pesticides that should have been banned long ago - it's a scandal.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Long Ago, Should Have, Dying

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• Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.

  John Muir

  Flower, Book, Doe

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• All finite things reveal infinitude: The mountain with its singular bright shade Like the blue shine on freshly frozen snow, The after-light upon ice-burdened pines; Odor of basswood upon a mountain slope, A scene beloved of bees; Silence of water above a sunken tree: The pure serene of memory of one man,- A ripple widening from a single stone Winding around the waters of the world.

  Theodore Roethke

  Memories, Men, Shine On

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• We can't think of changing our skin color. Change the world - that's how we gotta think.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Thinking, Skin Color, Skins

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• Every little thing wants to be loved.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Love, Bees And Honey, Want

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

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• The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Art, History

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.153, Harvard University Press

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• Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don't they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers.

  Ray Bradbury

  Summer, Flower, Smell

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• 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

  Animal, Men, Years

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• Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.

  Muhammad Ali

  Strength, Sports, Inspiration

  Twitter post from Nov 24, 2014

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

  Henry David Thoreau

  Animal, Bees And Honey, Sunbeams

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• When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Passion, Fighting, Men

  Abraham Lincoln, Bob Blaisdell (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Book of Quotations”, p.53, Courier Corporation

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• we are continually overflowing toward those who preceded us, toward our origin, and toward those who seemingly come after us. ... It is our task to imprint this temporary, perishable earth into ourselves so deeply, so painfully and passionately, that its essence can rise again “invisibly,” inside us. We are the bees of the invisible. We wildly collect the honey of the visible, to store it in the great golden hive of the invisible.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Essence, Tasks, Earth

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• Even bees, the little almsmen of spring bowers, know there is richest juice in poison-flowers.

  John Keats

  Spring, Flower, Poison

  John Keats (1818). “The Complete Works of John Keats”, p.41

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• It's wonderful to me that bees have this simple, age-old thing going on.

  Peter Fonda

  Simple, Old Things, Age

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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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• About every two minutes a new wave of planes would be over. The motors seemed to grind rather than roar, and to have an angry pulsation like a bee buzzing in blind fury.

  Ernie Pyle

  Two, Would Be, Literature

  Ernie Pyle, David Nichols (1987). “Ernie's war: the best of Ernie Pyle's World War II dispatches”, Touchstone

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• When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

  Ramakrishna

  Inspirational, Flower, Uninvited Guests

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• 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

  Business, Nice, Often Is

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Chalmers (1807). “A Supplementary Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Containing Pieces of Poetry, Not Inserted in Warburton's and Warton's Editions : and a Collection of Letters, Now First Published”, p.122

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• Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur.

  Harold MacMillan

  Roles, Dinosaurs, Britain

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• Let us turn elsewhere, to the wasps and bees, who unquestionably come first in the laying up of a heritage for their offspring.

  Jean-Henri Fabre

  Heritage, Firsts, Wasps

  Jean-Henri Fabre (1998). “The Passionate Observer: Writings from the World of Nature”, Chronicle Books Llc

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• 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

  Dream, Spring, Winter

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1854). “The complete works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an introductory essay upon his philosophical and theological opinions”, p.281

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