Bees And Honey Quotes

Bees And Honey Quotes by Saint John Chrysostom, Dale Carnegie, Isaac Watts, Marcus Aurelius, William Shakespeare, A. A. Milne and many others.

The bee is more honored than other animals, not because

The bee is more honored than other animals, not because she labors, but because she labors for others.
Saint John Chrysostom
If you want to gather honey, don’t kick over the beehive.
Dale Carnegie
How doth the little busy bee
Improve each shining hour,
And gather honey all the day
From every opening flower!
Isaac Watts
What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.
Marcus Aurelius
For so work the honey bees, creatures that by a rule in nature teach the act of order to a peopled kingdom.
William Shakespeare
And the only reason for making honey is so as I can eat it.
A. A. Milne
The two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.
Jonathan Swift
For the rest, whatever we have got has been by infinite labor, and search, and ranging through every corner of nature; the difference is that instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax, thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.
Jonathan Swift
Bees work for man, and yet they never bruise
Their Master’s flower, but leave it having done,
As fair as ever and as fit to use;
So both the flower doth stay and honey run.
George Herbert
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
If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.
Maurice Maeterlinck
O bees, sweet bees!” I said; “that nearest field Is shining white with fragrant immortelles Fly swiftly there and drain those honey wells.
Helen Hunt Jackson
If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.
This is regarded as probably NOT a quote by Einstein.
Albert Einstein
One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care. Such is the quality of bees.
Leo Tolstoy
What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bee and he told me about the butcher and my wife.
Rodney Dangerfield
The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
William Blake
Every saint has a bee in his halo.
E. V. Lucas