Bees quotes
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"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."
"I've got miracle lyrical capability all in me / With the agility to escape a killer bee colony."
"Because life goes on, L. The birds do their thing, and the bees do theirs. Seeds get scattered, and everything grows back."
"Bee, why are you staring at me? I am not a flower??"
"The day hums sweetly when you have enough bees working for you."
"An oath that is not to bee made is not to be kept."
"I really like grammar. And spelling. I was a spelling-bee kid. I'm hard-core about grammar."
"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."
"5.Buggre Alle this for a Larke I amme sick to mye Hart of typefetinge. Master Biltonn if no Gentelmann, and Master Scagges now more that a tighte fisted Southwarke Knobbefticke. I telle you, onne a daye laike thif Ennywone withe half and oz of Sense shoulde bee oute in the Suneshain, ane nott Stucke here alle the lielong dale inn thif mowldey olde By-Our-Lady Workefhoppe *AE@;I*"
"Such bees! Bilbo had never seen anything like them. "If one were to sting me," He thought "I should swell up as big as I am!"
"Bees are sometimes drowned in the honey which they collectso some writers are lost in their collected learning."
"Sometimes human beings are very much like bees. Bees are fiercely protective of their hive, provided you are outside it. Once you’re in, the workers sort of assume that it must have been cleared by management and take no notice; various freeloading insects have evolved a mellifluous existence because of this very fact. Humans act the same way."
"The bee enclosed and through the amber shown Seems buried in the juice which was his own."
"Sinnes are not knowne till they bee acted."
"To bee beloved is above all bargaines."
"When all men have what belongs to them, it cannot bee much. [When all men have what belongs to them, it cannot be much.]"
"Bee not idle and you shall not bee longing."
"Bee not a Baker, if your head be of butter."
"Every bees hony is sweet."
"Harken to reason or shee will bee heard."
