Best 282 quotes in «bees quotes» category

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

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

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.

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.

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 busy bee has no time for sorrow.

The dandelions and buttercups gild all the lawn: the drowsy bee stumbles among the clover tops, and summer sweetens all to me.

The early bees are assaulting and fumbling the flowers: They call it 'easing the Spring.'

The flowers are full of honey, but only the bee finds out the sweetness.

The genteel thing is the genteel thing any time, if as be that a gentleman bees in a concatenation accordingly.

The greater the kindred is, the lesse the kindnesse must bee.

The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.

The honey is sweet, but the Bee stings.

The Honey is sweet, but the Bee has a Sting.

The life of spies is to know, not bee known.

The more learned and witty you bee, the more fit to act for Satan will you bee.

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.

There is nothing more mysterious about the concept human nature than about the concept bee or chicken nature, at least for those who regard humans as creatures in the biological world.

There is nothing to be found in a beehive that is not submerged in a bee. And yet you can search a bee forever with cyclotron and fluoroscope, and you will never find the hive.

There never was any party, faction, sect, or cabal whatsoever, in which the most ignorant were not the most violent; for a bee is not a busier animal than a blockhead.

There's an interdependence between flowers and bees. Where there are no flowers there are no bees, and where there are no bees, there are no flowers. They are really one organism. And so in the same way, everything in nature depends on everything else.

The revery alone will do If bees are few.

The role of third parties is to sting like a bee, then die.

The Secret Life of Bees proves that a family can be found where you least expect it-maybe not under your own roof, but in that magical place where you find love. The Secret Life of Bees is a gift, filled with hope!

The solitary Bee Whose buzzing was the only sound of life, Flew there on restless wing, Seeking in vain one blossom where to fix.

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.

The very serpents bite their tails; the bees forget to sting, For a language so celestial setteth up a wondering. And the touch of absent mindedness is more than any line, Since direction counts for nothing when the gods set up a sign.

The would-bees take their honey from the flowers of creation.

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

We can slide it Rapidly backwards and forwards: we call this Easing the spring. And rapidly backwards and forwards The early bees are assaulting and fumbling the flowers: They call it easing the Spring.

Read like a butterfly, write like a bee.

We all know about the habits of the ant, we know all about the habits of the bee, but we know nothing at all about the habits of the oyster. It seems almost certain that we have been choosing the wrong time for studying the oyster.

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.

We gon' float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. AH! Rumble, young man rumble! AH!

Well beloved subjects, wee thought that the clergie of our realme had been our subjectes wholy, but now we have well perceived that they bee but halfe our subjectes, yea, and scarce our subjectes: for all the prelates at their consecration make an othe to the pope, clene contrary to the the that they make to us, so that they seme to be his subjectes, and not ours.

Well for the drones of the social hive that there are bees of an industrious turn, willing, for an infinitesimal share of the honey, to undertake the labor of its fabrication.

To bee beloved is above all bargaines.

We may like the honey without liking the bee, but this will not be ethical!

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

We're much alike, bee, you and me," I said. "You may carry your pack underneath you and your rifle may stick out of your bottom. But you and me, bee, are much alike.