Top 100 Bee Bees Quotes
#2. 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
#3. The bee that hath honey in her mouth hath a sting in her tail.
John Lyly
#5. Santa is like a queen bee. All the elves are his drones, who exist to feed him royal jelly, which I guess would be milk and cookies. If an elf escapes and eats royal cookies, it will turn into another Santa. That's what all those mall Santas are. They're trying to start their own festive colonies.
Thomm Quackenbush
#6. Royal jelly is the substance that worker bees produce and feed to the queen bee. Because the queen bee is the only bee that is fertile within the colony, laying around 2000 eggs per day, this substance is considered to help promote fertility in humans as well.
Sally Moran
#8. Take your brush here and there like a bee in an alpine meadow. In other words, don't laboriously work on or try to finish off one particular part. Paint promiscuously.
Robert Genn
#9. Droughts especially appear to have accompanied the spirits of the dead in bee-form, and for this reason the honey offering was almost always customary in rain-magic, and the power of predicting rain was attributed to the bee.
Hilda M. Ransome
#12. The little cannot bee great, unlesse he devoure many.
[The little cannot be great unless he devour many.]
George Herbert
#13. 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.
Akkineni Nagarjuna
#14. I like pulling on a baggy bee suit, forgetting myself and getting as close to the bees' lives as they will let me, remembering in the process that there is more to life than the merely human.
Sue Hubbell
#15. It's not enough to be able to spell "magnificence" in your bedroom. You have to be able to spell it at the microphone during the spelling bee.
Cynthia Lewis
#16. [Lord Brougham's writings on the bee's cell contain] as striking examples of bad reasoning as are often to be met with in writings related to mathematical subjects.
James Whitbread Lee Glaisher
#17. Be valyaunt, but not too venturous. Let thy attyre bee comely, but not costly.
John Lyly
#18. If there's a buzzing-noise, somebody's making a buzzing-noise, and the only reason for making a buzzing-noise that I know of is because you're a bee.
A.A. Milne
#19. 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
#20. My cousin just died. He was only 19. He got stung by a bee - the natural enemy of a tightrope walker.
Dan Rather
#21. Diseases of the eye are to bee cured with the elbow.
George Herbert
#22. If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would have only four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man.
Albert Einstein
#23. It is the honey which makes us cruel enough to ignore the death of a bee
Munia Khan
#25. 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.
Agnes Denes
#26. People talk about mumblecore but I prefer bumblecore, hyper-realistic bee movies about how bees really are.
Mindy Kaling
#27. It was like a great bee come home from some field where the honey is full of poison wildness, of insanity and nightmare, its body crammed with that over-rich nectar and now it was sleeping the evil out of itself.
Ray Bradbury
#28. Everything about her was sweet, pale like honey. You would not have been surprised to see a bee caught in the tangles of that yellow hair.
Katherine Mansfield
#29. 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
#30. 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.
Mark Twain
#31. No good sensible working bee listens to the advice of a bedbug on the subject of business.
Elbert Hubbard
#32. I am not a part of this home any longer. I am a tiny thing created by indifferent scientists. I am an experiment, a mechanical bee placed near the hive. The real bees were happy being bees until I came along and gave them all the false information that destroyed their little lives.
James Tate
#34. I've said this over and over, but I'll say it a million more times - I'm concerned more about the death of a bee than I am about terrorism. Because we're losing hives and bees by the millions because of such strong pesticides.
Patti Smith
#35. An oath that is not to bee made is not to be kept.
George Herbert
#36. Hello again, everybody ... It's a bee-yoo-tiful day for baseball.
Harry Caray
#37. In the village, a sage should go about
Like a bee, which, not harming
Flower, colour or scent,
Flies off with the nectar.
Anonymous
#38. If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.
Maurice Maeterlinck
#39. The greater the kindred is, the lesse the kindnesse must bee.
John Lyly
#40. Oh but I want to be a bee frightfully,' wailed Kezia... A tiny bee, all yellow-furry, with striped legs. She drew her legs up under her and leaned over the table. She felt she was a bee.
Katherine Mansfield
#41. The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved in amber, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar.
Martial
#42. Led Zeppelin didn't write tunes that everybody liked, they left that to the Bee Gees.
Wayne Campbell
#44. I can do what you do, easy, BELIEVE ME
Frontin' niggas give me hee-bee-gee-bees
Lauryn Hill
#45. What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.
Marcus Aurelius
#46. It was the bumble bee and the butterfly who survived, not the dinosaur.
Meridel Le Sueur
#47. I don't even get the term, "the birds and the bees".
How does that properly teach a kid about sex? You never see a pigeon railing a
dove or a honey bee sticking it to a bumble bee.
Tara Sivec
#48. The little bee returns with evening's gloom, To join her comrades in the braided hive, Where, housed beside their might honey-comb, They dream their polity shall long survive.
Charles Tennyson Turner
#49. Everywhere bees go racing with the hours, / For every bee becomes a drunken lover, / Standing upon his head to sup the flowers.
Vita Sackville-West
#51. 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
#52. His Labor is a Chant - His Idleness -a Tune - Oh, for a Bee's experience Of Clovers, and of Noon!
Emily Dickinson
#53. I've avoided work all my life, you see. So, I'm like a bee. I go from flower to flower.
Malachy McCourt
#55. No honey for me, if it comes with a bee.
Sappho
#56. When was ever honey made with one bee in a hive?
Thomas Hood
#57. As the bee collecteth honey with great zest, so the fool collecteth wealth.
Kabir
#58. The bee enclosed and through the amber shown Seems buried in the juice which was his own.
Francis Bacon
#59. Like the bee its sting, the promiscuous leave behind them in each encounter something of themselves by which they are made to suffer.
Cyril Connolly
#60. Humility must always be doing its work like a bee making honey in the hive: without humility all will be lost.
Teresa Of Avila
#62. 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.
Robert Herrick
#63. 'Ms.' is a syllable which sounds like a bumble bee is breaking wind.
Hortense Calisher
#64. A big bee, a golden furry fellow, crept into a freesia, and the delicate flower leaned over, swung, shook; and when the bee flew away it fluttered still as though it were laughing. Happy, careless flower!
Katherine Mansfield
#65. Let any stranger find mee so pleasant a county, such good way, large heath, three such places as Norwich, Yar. and Lin. in any county of England, and I'll bee once again a vagabond to visit them.
Thomas Browne
#66. On the day the world ends A bee circles a clover, A fisherman mends a glimmering net.
Czeslaw Milosz
#67. 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
#68. Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
John Muir
#69. 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
#70. It's disappointing to have lost - that's the bee's knees of it ...
Tim Henman
#72. So on one hand, honey is an amazingly sophisticated and efficient food source. On the other hand, it's bee backwash.
Alton Brown
#73. Speak with contempt of none, from slave to king, The meanest Bee hath, and will use, a sting.
Benjamin Franklin
#74. Goose [pen] bee [wax] and calf [parchment] govern the world.
[Lat., Anser, apie, vitellus, populus et regna gubernant.]
James Howell
#76. 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
#77. Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.
Martial
#80. Good newes may bee told at any time, but ill in the morning.
George Herbert
#82. What does not benefit the hive is no benefit to the bee.
Marcus Aurelius
#83. A comely olde man as busie as a bee.
John Lyly
#84. 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.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
#85. The more learned and witty you bee, the more fit to act for Satan will you bee.
John Cotton
#86. The bee's life is like a magic well: the more you draw from it, the more it fills with water
Karl Von Frisch
#87. If Atomes are as small, as small can bee,They must in quantity of Matter all agree
Margaret Cavendish
#88. When you see honey in the bush and there are no sign of bees, flee!! for its all but a trap
Ikechukwu Izuakor
#89. I dreamt
marvellous error!
that I had a beehive here inside my heart. And the golden bees were making white combs and sweet honey from my old failures.
Antonio Machado
#90. Negativity is like being stung constantly by a thousand bees. At first it's really annoying, but after a few more stings it becomes toxic.
James Jean-Pierre
#91. It is the goodly outside that sin puts on which tempteth to destruction. It has been said that sin is like the bee, with honey in its mouth, but a sting in its tail.
Hosea Ballou
#92. 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
#93. 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
#94. Hee that knowes what may bee gained in a day never steales.
George Herbert
#97. I would hate to be a bee. Be surrounded by bees all the time.
Craig Benzine
#98. Now it's the bee... Gees! Bees are now endangered species... Without them life won't be sweet!
Ana Claudia Antunes
#99. 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.
Karl Marx
#100. Biology
The film turns out to be about bees. It is a film about a bee center. How crap is this going to be?
An hour later
That was the best thing I have seen for ages. We made Miss Wilson rewind the bit where the two queens were having a bitch fight.
Louise Rennison
