Best 282 quotes in «bees quotes» category

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

Life is not so idiotically mathematical that only the big eat the small; it is just as common for a bee to kill a lion or at least to drive it mad.

Like bees around honey. Why are bees so attracted to honey, since they make it? It can only be vanity.

Like people love their tote, they love their initial bangle, they love their C. Wonder belts, they love their cardigans and their striped top, and I'm really happy to be bringing that back and helping people get their 'Bee Happy' smoking slippers again.

Like the bee its sting, the promiscuous leave behind them in each encounter something of themselves by which they are made to suffer.

Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.

Look, I guess it's natural, you're teenagers, its springtime,everyone's thoughts are turning to birds and bees and caterpillars and moths..... - Iggy

[Lord Brougham's writings on the bee's cell contain] as striking examples of bad reasoning as are often to be met with in writings related to mathematical subjects.

Melancholy men of all others are most witty, which causeth many times a divine ravishment, and a kinde of Enthusiasmus, which stirreth them up to bee excellent Philosophers, Poets, Prophets, etc.

Love is the bee that carries the pollen from one heart to another.

Melancholy held me hostage, and the bees built a hive of sadness in my soul.

Mine be a cot beside the hill; A bee-hive's hum shall soothe my ear; A willowy brook, that turns a mill, With many a fall shall linger near.

'Ms.' is a syllable which sounds like a bumble bee is breaking wind.

My banks they are furnish'd with bees, Whose murmur invites one to sleep.

My business is words. Words are like labels, or coins, or better, like swarming bees.

My cousin just died. He was only 19. He got stung by a bee - the natural enemy of a tightrope walker.

No good sensible working bee listens to the advice of a bedbug on the subject of business.

News is often dispersed as thoughtlessly and effectively as that pollen which the bees carry off (having no idea how powdery they are) when they are buzzing in search of their particular nectar.

No honey for me, if it comes with a bee.

Nature is what we see - the hill, the afternoon, squirrel, eclipse, the bumblebee. Nay, nature is heaven. Nature is what we hear...

[On John Cleese:] He sometimes seems to swat at his own thoughts as if they were bees.

No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, there can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.

One thing I've learned - and I've said this to Republicans and Democrats - is, bees cannot sting and make honey at the same time. They have to make a choice. Either they are going to be a stinger or a honey-maker, and I contend that honey is a symbol of legislation and, the nuclear language used by members is the stinger, and you can't do both.

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

On My Last-Place Finish in the 50-Yard Dash During Little League Tryouts “It kinda looked like you were being attacked by a bunch of bees or something. Then when I saw the fat kid with the watch who was timing you start laughing…. Well, I’ll just say it’s never a good sign when a fat kid laughs at you.

People talk about mumblecore but I prefer bumblecore, hyper-realistic bee movies about how bees really are.

She wasn't as destructive as Bee. She had never been as dramatic. Rather, she'd slipped carefully, stealthily away from her ghosts.

Read like a butterfly, write like a bee.

Rumor is like bees; the more you fight them the more you don't get rid of them.

She was sad about what happened to Kostos. And someplace under that, she was sad that people like Bee and Kostos, who had lost everything, were still open to love, and she, who'd lost nothing, was not.

Reason is a bee, and exists only on what it makes; his usefulness takes the place of beauty.

Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save those snails.

Speak with contempt of none, from slave to king, The meanest Bee hath, and will use, a sting.

So on one hand, honey is an amazingly sophisticated and efficient food source. On the other hand, it's bee backwash.

The bee enclosed and through the amber shown Seems buried in the juice which was his own.

Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.

The bee himself did not evade the schoolboy more than she evaded me, and even at this day I still stand somewhat bewildered, like the boy.

The bees learn where they live by landmarks. If they're moved within their home range, they get confused.

The bee fertilizes the flower it robs.

Take your brush here and there like a bee in an alpine meadow. In other words, don't laboriously work on or try to finish off one particular part. Paint promiscuously.

Taste may be compared to that exquisite sense of the bee, which instantly discovers and extracts the quintessence of every flower, and disregards all the rest of it.

The Ancient Egyptians considered it good luck to meet a swarm of Bees on the road. What they considered bad luck I couldn't say.

The bee and the serpent often sip from the selfsame flower.

The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved in amber, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar.

The bees can abide no drones amongst them; but as soon as they begin to be idle, they kill them.

The best things in life are free, but you can keep them for the birds and bees; I want money.

The Bee Gees who are brilliant, I just love great music.

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

The bees in my stomach are dead and getting used to it.

The bee that hath honey in her mouth hath a sting in her tail.