If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live. – Maurice Maeterlinck
Opening a window to let out a fly and ending up with thirty midges, three wasps, two bees and an owl. – Rob Temple, @SoVeryBritish (Very British Problems: Making Life Awkward for Ourse
[L]et us linger awhile in the wonderful old Lilac walk. It is a glory of tender green and shaded amethyst and grateful hum of bees, the very voice of Spring. – Alice Morse Earle, “In Lilac Tide,” Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth, 1901
It is not how busy you are, but why you are busy — the bee is praised, the mosquito is swatted. – Author Unknown
The pedigree of honey does not concern the bee, a clover, anytime, to him, is aristocracy. – Emily Dickinson
Books are the beehives of thought; laconics, the honey taken from them. – James Ellis, quoted in Edge-Tools of Speech by Maturin M. Ballou, 1899
Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind. – James Russell Lowell
Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it. – John Muir
One swallow will not make spring, nor one bee honey. – Proverb
[T]he bees will buzz you a welcome from the hives at the end, and then the trees will stoop down about you, and you can look up into a green sky set with constellations of apples. – Margaret Troili, “Woods of Mendocino,” Out West: A Magazine of the O
Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers. – Robert Ingersoll
Every saint has a bee in his halo. – Elbert Hubbard
Bees that have honey in their mouths have stings in their tails. – Scottish proverb
When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees. – Abraham Lincoln
