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What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.
Sep 18, 2025
We think we can make honey without sharing in the fate of bees, but we are in truth nothing but poor bees, destined to accomplish our task and then die.
Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.
The two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.
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.
What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bee and he told me about the butcher and my wife.
Every little thing wants to be loved.
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.
Every saint has a bee in his halo.
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.
O bees, sweet bees!" I said; "that nearest field Is shining white with fragrant immortelles Fly swiftly there and drain those honey wells.
A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.
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.
And the only reason for making honey is so as I can eat it.
One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care. Such is the quality of bees.
For so work the honey bees, creatures that by a rule in nature teach the act of order to a peopled kingdom.
The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.
Give and Take... For to the bee a flower is a fountain if life And to the flower a bee is a messenger of love And to both, bee and flower, the giving and the receiving is a need and an ecstasy.
The bee is more honored than other animals, not because she labors, but because she labors for others.
How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower!
That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.
If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive.
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
The pedigree of honey does not concern the bee; A clover, any time, to him is aristocracy.
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