Von Frisch Quotes

#1. The bee's life is like a magic well: the more you draw from it, the more it fills with water

Karl Von Frisch

#2. The only true and effective "operator's manual for spaceship earth" is not a book that any human will ever write; it is hundreds of thousands of local cultures.

Wendell Berry

#3. Despair was a private weakness she could not afford to indulge.

Robin McKinley

#4. Those who got the twentieth century right, whether in anticipation [..] or as contemporary observations, had to be able to imagine a world for which there was no precedent.

Tony Judt

#5. Only when all images of Earth are hushed and the clamor of the senses be stilled, and the soul has passed beyond thought of self, can the eternal wisdom be revealed to the mystic who seeks that highest communion with the unseen.

Margaret Smith

#6. There is no pain and there are no sorrows. They no longer have permission to live in my today or my tomorrow.

Steven Cuoco

#7. Oh, this your wife, huh? A lovely lady. Hey baby, you must've been something before electricity.

Rodney Dangerfield

#8. I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine.

Karl Von Frisch

#9. I received my doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1910.

Karl Von Frisch

#10. The ant is a collectively intelligent and individually stupid animal; man is the opposite.

Karl Von Frisch

#11. Ixion exists as an antidote to the rules and conventions of other places. We believe that indulging in pleasure will make better people. Self-denial and discipline and virtue are all myths invented to control you.

Marianne De Pierres

#12. It had always been a breathtaking view, the kind that made him inhale and forget to exhale . . .

Sere Prince Halverson

#13. When I was growing up in Monrovia, the capital of Liberia, I sold doughnuts, popcorn and Kool Aid every day after school so that my family had some money and I could pay my school fees. It was a tough life.

George Weah

#14. Nature has unlimited time in which to travel along tortuous paths to an unknown destination. The mind of man is too feeble to discern whence or whither the path runs and has to be content if it can discern only portions of the track, however small.

Karl Von Frisch

#15. 46For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? 47If you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? 48Therefore you are to be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

Anonymous

#16. After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna.

Karl Von Frisch

#17. When no one loves you, you have to pretend that everyone loves you.

Charles M. Schulz

#18. I like songs that are simple.

Syd Barrett

#19. There is a vision for my life that is greater than my imagination can hold.

Oprah Winfrey

#20. I have been a Professor Emeritus since 1958, and have continued my scientific studies.

Karl Von Frisch

#21. I really want people to understand that nobody is perfect and that things happen in life beyond our control.

Lil' Kim