Best 282 quotes in «bees quotes» category

As great a store Have we of books as bees of herbs or more.

A spider conducts operations that resemble those of a weaver, and a bee puts to shame many an architect in the construction of her cells. But what distinguishes the worst architect from the best of bees is this, that the architect raises his structure in imagination before he erects it in reality.

As the bee collecteth honey with great zest, so the fool collecteth wealth.

Bees are not as busy as we think they are. They just can't buzz any slower.

Bee not idle and you shall not bee longing.

Bees are a good omen to Kings, for they signify an obsequious people.

Bees are sometimes drowned in the honey which they collectso some writers are lost in their collected learning.

Bee stings are very educational

bees dig the plum blossoms

Bee, why are you staring at me? I am not a flower??

Because life goes on, L. The birds do their thing, and the bees do theirs. Seeds get scattered, and everything grows back.

Bee to the blossom, moth to the flame; Each to his passion; what's in a name?

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

Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic when the fit of escaping is upon him!

Crowds of bees are giddy with clover Crowds of grasshoppers skip at our feet, Crowds of larks at their matins hang over, Thanking the Lord for a life so sweet.

Before men we stand as opaque bee-hives. They can see the thoughts go in and out of us; but what work they do inside of a man they cannot tell. Before God we are as glass bee-hives, and all that our thoughts are doing within us he perfectly sees and understands.

Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.

Everywhere bees go racing with the hours, / For every bee becomes a drunken lover, / Standing upon his head to sup the flowers.

Because of the varroa mite, wild honey bees are now, for all practical purposes, extinct in the United States.

Democracy does not contain any force which will check the constant tendency to put more and more on the public payroll. The state is like a hive of bees in which the drones display, multiply and starve the workers so the idlers will consume the food and the workers will perish.

Diseases of the eye are to bee cured with the elbow.

Fondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee.

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.

For bees are captious folk / And quick to turn against the lubber's touch.

For a while, some schools across the country were banning spelling bees. For obvious reasons, of course - steroids

For where's the State beneath the Firmament, That doth excell the Bees for Government?

Good newes may bee told at any time, but ill in the morning.

From Indian vultures to Chinese bees, Nature provides the 'natural services' that keep the economy going

Goose [pen] bee [wax] and calf [parchment] govern the world. [Lat., Anser, apie, vitellus, populus et regna gubernant.]

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

Hello again, everybody... It's a bee-yoo-tiful day for baseball.

Glory, glory, said the Bee, Hallelujah, said the Flea. Praise the Lord, remarked the Wren. At springtime all is born-again.

He that hath but one eye, must bee afraid to lose it. [He that hath but one eye must be afraid to lose it.]

He that will be served must bee patient.

His Labor is a Chant - His Idleness -a Tune - Oh, for a Bee's experience Of Clovers, and of Noon!

Honey bees are amazing creatures. I mean, think about it, do earwigs make chutney?

Homo sapiens are the only mammals who intentionally hold Beard Of Bees competitions.

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

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.

I carry about eight lip balms: Burts Bees, Rosebud Salve, Eos.

Honor all living things, for we are of the stag, and the salmon, and the bee; so destroy not life, save it be to preserve your own.

If honey bees become extinct, human society will follow in four years.

I can do what you do, easy, BELIEVE ME Frontin' niggas give me hee-bee-gee-bees

If I could relive my life, what I would do is work with scientists. But not one scientist, because they're locked into their little specializations. I'd go from scientist to scientist to scientist, like a bee goes from flower to flower.

If you wanna find the honey / You can't be scared of the bees.

If he [Thomas Edison] had a needle to find in a haystack, he would not stop to reason where it was most likely to be, but would proceed at once with the feverish diligence of a bee, to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search. ... [J]ust a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety percent of his labor.

If you would bee at ease, all the world is not.

I go to books and to nature as a bee goes to the flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey.

If they make it illegal to wear the veil at work, bee keepers are going to be furious.

I love Donna Summer, and I love ABBA. I love late 70s disco. I love the Bee Gees. I just love that period of recording.