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She knew nothing about him, other than what he revealed of himself through his garden.
— Gail Anderson-Dargatz
The sceptics, like bees, give their one sting and die.
— G.K. Chesterton
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! — J.R.R. Tolkien
"If one were to sting me," He thought "I should swell up as big as I am! — J.R.R. Tolkien
When you go in search of honey, you must expect to be stung by bees.
— Joseph Joubert
Humans are social animals. They cluster like bees.
— Rick Yancey
But, for the point of wisdom, I would choose / To know the mind that stirs between the wings / Of bees ...
— George Eliot
He that will be served must bee patient.
— George Herbert
The extreme self-sacrifice characteristic of group-selected species such as ants and bees can often be found among soldiers.
— Jonathan Haidt
Hawthorn, white and odorous with blossom, framing the quiet fields, and swaying flowers and grasses, and the hum of bees.
— F. S Flint
In the village, a sage should go about
Like a bee, which, not harming
Flower, colour or scent,
Flies off with the nectar. — Anonymous
Like a bee, which, not harming
Flower, colour or scent,
Flies off with the nectar. — Anonymous
He is not worthy of the honey-comb, that shuns the hives because the bees have stings.
— William Shakespeare
On the day the world ends A bee circles a clover, A fisherman mends a glimmering net.
— Czeslaw Milosz
Here's a trick to giving the birds-and-bees talk: You gotta do it in a car, so they can't escape. That's what all my girlfriends' parents did.
— Martha MacIsaac
Emotions buzz through our beings like busy bees, giving us the gift of living vividly.
— Amy Leigh Mercree
You can attract more bees with a spoonful of sugar than a cupful of vinegar.
— Saint Francis De Sales
An opportunity to allow the bees in one's bonnet to buzz even more noisily than usual.
— Hermann Bondi
I like writing melody without an instrument. It's just so - it's more like the choreography of a bee; you just go.
— Tom Waits
Littlefinger looked like a boy who had just taken a furtive bite from a honeycomb. He was TRYING to watch for bees, but the honey was so sweet.
— George R R Martin
For better or worse, honeybees are often much too busy to be bothered with personal reflection.
— Susan Brackney
Even bees, the little almsmen of spring bowers, know there is richest juice in poison-flowers.
— John Keats
Well, sometimes it's not about the birds and the bees, is it? Sometimes it's about the birds and the birds, or the bees and the bees.
— Lisa Henry
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.
— Emily Dickinson
A sum of money is a leading character in this tale about people, just as a sum of honey might properly be a leading character in a tale about bees.
— Kurt Vonnegut
Every bees hony is sweet.
— George Herbert
I work like a bee and feel that I accomplish little.
— Louise Bourgeois
Honey does not lose its sweetness because it is made by bees that sting.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Reason is a bee, and exists only on what it makes; his usefulness takes the place of beauty.
— Joseph Joubert
He that hath but one eye, must bee afraid to lose it.
[He that hath but one eye must be afraid to lose it.] — George Herbert
[He that hath but one eye must be afraid to lose it.] — George Herbert
You are the ocean, let the rivers come to you. You are the flower, let the bees come to you.
— Amit Ray
You seem to attract injuries in the manner that a flower attracts bees.
— Samantha Shannon
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. — Samuel Rogers
A bee-hive's hum shall soothe my ear;
A willowy brook, that turns a mill,
With many a fall shall linger near. — Samuel Rogers
To be successful, one has to be one of three bees: the queen bee, the hardest working bee, or the bee that does not fit in.
— Suzy Kassem
the bees were on good terms with the unseen world, being the messengers to the dead. She
— Margaret Atwood
Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic when the fit of escaping is upon him!
— Bram Stoker
Hee that knowes what may bee gained in a day never steales.
— George Herbert
Hebe's here, May is here!
The air is fresh and sunny;
And the miser-bees are busy
Hoarding golden honey. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
The air is fresh and sunny;
And the miser-bees are busy
Hoarding golden honey. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
The bee and the serpent often sip from the selfsame flower.
— Pietro Metastasio
Paradoxes are what draws Wisdom like bees to honey! Hence, where there is no paradox (Complexity), there is no need for Wisdom....
— Amit Chatterjee
As bees gather honey, so we collect what is sweetest out of all things and build ...
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Like bees around honey. Why are bees so attracted to honey, since they make it? It can only be vanity.
— Simon Munnery
Humility must always be doing its work like a bee making honey in the hive: without humility all will be lost.
— Teresa Of Avila
In Tarzan I only had to worry about the bees.
— Casper Van Dien
I'm just getting better and better. It's just like a bunch of worker bees protecting the king bee, because I'm not a queen bee. I'm a king bee.
— Shaquille O'Neal
When all men have what belongs to them, it cannot bee much.
[When all men have what belongs to them, it cannot be much.] — George Herbert
[When all men have what belongs to them, it cannot be much.] — George Herbert
The honey is guarded by bees.. The rose has thorns.. To enjoy the sweet & beautiful you can NOT be cowardly.
— Joseph Simmons
An Ambitious woman shewes her selfe to bee a troublesome disturber of the world, powerfull to make smale things great, and great monstrous
— Thomas Overbury
Diseases of the eye are to bee cured with the elbow.
— George Herbert
I actually grew up in a house in which bees lived in one of the walls, and they lived there 18 years, in fact, so it wasn't a fleeting thing.
— Sue Monk Kidd
Sadly, we live in a world where if you do good things, there are no financial rewards. If you poison the earth, there is a fortune to be made.
— June Stoyer
We are bees then; our honey is language.
— Robert Bly
The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
— Henry David Thoreau
Though my verse but roam the air And murmur in the trees, You may discern a purpose there, As in music of the bees.
— Alfred Austin
Awestruck, Flora stared at the dishevelled sisters with their blazing faces and radiant ragged wings, who smelled of no kin but the wild high air.
— Laline Paull
The solitary Bee Whose buzzing was the only sound of life, Flew there on restless wing, Seeking in vain one blossom where to fix.
— Robert Southey
From Indian vultures to Chinese bees, Nature provides the 'natural services' that keep the economy going
— Tony Juniper
The bee is domesticated but not tamed.
— William Longgood
I don't like to hear cut and dried sermons. No - when I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
— Abraham Lincoln
When a loved one is sick the days are long, but the years are short."
From Hour of the Bees — Lindsay Eager
From Hour of the Bees — Lindsay Eager
Everyone should have two or three hives of bees. Bees are easier to keep than a dog or a cat. They are more interesting than gerbils.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.
— Marcus Aurelius
For bees are captious folk / And quick to turn against the lubber's touch ...
— Vita Sackville-West
At night in bed, they talked. He, of the bees. She of the birds. Never of the birds and bees.
— LaVyrle Spencer
Until it seems the whole city will be covered with gold pollen shaken from the bell-towers, lilies plundered with the weight of massive bees ...
— Hilda Doolittle
Bees are sometimes drowned in the honey which they collectso some writers are lost in their collected learning.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
Watch yourself all your life in a mirror and you'll see Death at work like bees in a glass hive.
— Jean Cocteau
For Trisha
The truth's in myth not fact,
a story fragment or an act
that lasts and stands for all:
how bees made honey in a skull. — Gregory Orr
The truth's in myth not fact,
a story fragment or an act
that lasts and stands for all:
how bees made honey in a skull. — Gregory Orr
Hee that would bee well old, must bee old betimes.
— George Herbert
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.
— Scott Cunningham
No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, there can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The bee's life is like a magic well: the more you draw from it, the more it fills with water
— Karl Von Frisch
These are just the rules and regulations Of the birds, and the bees The earth, and the trees, Not to mention the gods, not to mention the gods.
— Rufus Wainwright
The bees came the summer of 1964
— Sue Monk Kidd
Worker bees can leave.
Even drones can fly away.
The Queen is their slave. — Chuck Palahniuk
Even drones can fly away.
The Queen is their slave. — Chuck Palahniuk
Bees and butterflies, moths and dragonflies, the flowers and the brooks and the clouds.
— George MacDonald
Speak with contempt of none, from slave to king, The meanest Bee hath, and will use, a sting.
— Benjamin Franklin
I saw a bee have a heart attack ...
— Karl Pilkington
Something was jigging and worrying in his brain; it felt like a hive of bees, stirred up by a stick.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
Swallows have disappeared, bees are dying out because of pesticides that should have been banned long ago - it's a scandal.
— Brigitte Bardot
When poets go off the boil, they sound like bumble bees; when critics do, they sound like sewing machines.
— Mason Cooley
If you wanna find the honey / You can't be scared of the bees,
— Kacey Musgraves
Like busy bees in springtime, coming and going, sitting and standing, settling together and flying apart.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The flowers are full of honey, but only the bee finds out the sweetness.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Just as bees make honey from thyme, the strongest and driest of herbs, so do the wise profit from the most difficult of experiences.
— Plato
If honey bees become extinct, human society will follow in four years.
— Albert Einstein