Busy Bee Quotes

• Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.

  Muhammad Ali

  Strength, Sports, Inspiration

  Twitter post from Nov 24, 2014

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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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• It's not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy.

  Catherine O'Hara

  Busy

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• 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

  Work, Mean, Destiny

  George Ade (1904). “True bills”

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• A bee is never as busy as it seems; it's just that it can't buzz any slower.

  Kin Hubbard

  Work, Buzz, Bees

  "The Modern Handbook of Humor". Book by Ralph Louis Woods, 1967.

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• 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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• 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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Freedom, Bees And Honey, Honey Bee

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) (1928). “Marcus Aurelius Antoninus to Himself”

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• To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, -

  Emily Dickinson

  Bees, Pollination, Clovers

  Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.522, Harvard University Press

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• The revery alone will do
  If bees are few.

  Emily Dickinson

  Dream, Bees, Pollination

  Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.522, Harvard University Press

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• 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

  Garden, Light, Literature

  Desiderius Erasmus, William Watson Barker (2001). “The Adages of Erasmus”, p.33, University of Toronto Press

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• To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.

  Emily Dickinson

  Tragedy, Literature, Bees

  Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.522, Harvard University Press

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• 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

  Atheist, Dark, Night

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