Hives Quotes

• What does not benefit the hive is no benefit to the bee.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Doe, Benefits, Bees

  Marcus Aurelius (2009). “Meditations”, p.43, Everyman's Library

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• When was ever honey made with one bee in a hive?

  Thomas Hood

  Inspirational, Life, Teamwork

  Thomas Hood (1857). “The poetical works of Thomas Hood”, p.353

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• He is not worthy of the honey-comb, that shuns the hives because the bees have stings.

  William Shakespeare

  Honey, Bees, Worthy

  William Shakespeare (1709). “The Works of Mr. William Shakespear: In Eight Volumes. Adorn'd with Cuts”

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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, Bees And Honey, Kingdoms

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

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• Do not discount the psychic warmth of the hive.

  Chang-Rae Lee

  Psychics, Discounts, Warmth

  Chang-rae Lee (2014). “On Such a Full Sea: A Novel”, p.32, Penguin

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

  Jonathan Swift

  Light, Two, Bees And Honey

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

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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, Bees And Honey

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

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• The beautiful laws of time and space, once dislocated by our inaptitude, are holes and dens. If the hive be disturbed by rash and stupid hands, instead of honey, it will yield us bees.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Stupid, Hands

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.218, Modern Library

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• Believe it or not the war on Iraq is based on a sound scientific principle, The bee hive principle. Which clearly states that if you are stung by a bee, you should follow it back to its nest and then proceed to beat nest to a pulp with a baseball bat until the stripey little turd has learned its lesson.

  John Oliver

  Baseball, War, Believe

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• He who does not attempt to make peace / When small discords arise, / Is like the bee's hive which leaks drops of honey / Soon, the whole hive collapses.

  Akkineni Nagarjuna

  Peace, Honey, Bees

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• Life's too slippery for books, Clarice; anger appears as lust, lupus presents as hives.

  Thomas Harris

  Book, Lust, Slippery

  Thomas Harris (2009). “The Silence of the Lambs”, p.146, Macmillan

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• I will not doubt, though sorrows fall like rain, And troubles swarm like bees about a hive; I shall believe the heights for which I strive Are only reached by anguish and by pain; And though I groan and tremble with my crosses, I yet shall see, through my severest losses, The greater gain.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Faith, Pain, Fall

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.599, Delphi Classics

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• We are the bees of the invisible. We madly gather the honey of the visible to store it in the great golden hive of the invisible.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Honey, Golden, Bees

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• Long ago Apollo called to Aristæus, youngest of the shepherds, Saying, "I will make you keeper of my bees." Golden were the hives, and golden was the honey; golden, too, the music, Where the honey-makers hummed among the trees.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Long Ago, Tree, Shepherds

  Henry Van Dyke (1927). “Chosen poems”

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• You are being trained to be a Queen, but you do not have to act like one until y ou get your own hive. Being a Queen will not overtax you as you will never be called upon to use your mind on any major matter. You will use the National Mind, their mind. It's very restful.

  Elizabeth Hawes

  Queens, Mind, Use

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• Pretty things will swarm you like that, like your heart was a hive of electric bees.

  Katherine Dunn

  Heart, Bees, Like You

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• Goddamn you," Jacob said. "There's no damnation, Jacob. No Heaven but the forest and no God but the hive.

  Robert Charles Wilson

  Heaven, Damnation, Forests

  Robert Charles Wilson (2000). “The Perseids and Other Stories”, p.26, Macmillan

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• Humility must always be doing its work like a bee making honey in the hive: without humility all will be lost.

  Teresa of Avila

  Humility, Honey, Bees

  St. Teresa of Avila (2013). “Interior Castle”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• If you want to move beyond hive-docility, you must become God the Moralist.

  Timothy Leary

  Moving, Want, Ifs

  Timothy Leary (2001). “Your Brain Is God”, p.34, Ronin Publishing

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• The tools that a society uses to create and maintain itself are as central to human life as a hive is to bee life. Though the hive is not part of any individual bee, it is part of the colony, both shaped by and shaping the lives of its inhabitants.

  Clay Shirky

  Tools, Use, Bees

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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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