George Herbert
Poet
"The honey is sweet, but the Bee stings."
Bees quotes
Bees
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Emily Dickinson
Poet
"To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, -"
Teresa of Avila
Saint, Mystic, Writer
"Humility must always be doing its work like a bee making honey in the hive: without humility all will be lost."
George Carlin
Comedian, Actor
"Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save those snails."
Benjamin Franklin
Inventor, Statesman, Author
"The Honey is sweet, but the Bee has a Sting."
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"The sceptics, like bees, give their one sting and die."
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"As a bee without harming the flower, its colour or scent, flies away, collecting only the honey, even so should the sage wander in the village."
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"The bees can abide no drones amongst them; but as soon as they begin to be idle, they kill them."
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"Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory."
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"The flowers are full of honey, but only the bee finds out the sweetness."
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"No honey for me, if it comes with a bee."
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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."
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"When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited."
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"Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others."
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"The dandelions and buttercups gild all the lawn: the drowsy bee stumbles among the clover tops, and summer sweetens all to me."
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"As bees gather honey, so we collect what is sweetest out of all things and build."
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"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."
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"So on one hand, honey is an amazingly sophisticated and efficient food source. On the other hand, it's bee backwash."
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"What does not benefit the hive is no benefit to the bee."
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"The busy bee has no time for sorrow."
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"Every ant knows the formula of its ant-hill, every bee knows the formula of its beehive. They know it in their own way, not in our way. Only humankind does not know its own formula."
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"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."
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"The revery alone will do If bees are few."
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"I'm petrified of bees because I have an anaphylactic reaction to bees."
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"Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still."
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