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A brier rose whose buds yield fragrant harvest for the honey bee. — Letitia Landon
A swarm of bees in May is worth a ton of hay. A swarm of bees in June is worth a silver spoon. A swarm of bees in July ain't even worth a fly. — Author Unknown
Bees are not kept for their color, but for their productivity. — Brother Adam
Go to the bee, and learn how diligent she is, and what noble work she produces; whose labor kings and private men use for their health. She is desired and honored by all, and, though weak in strength, yet since she values wisdom she prevails. — Bible (Septuagint), Proverbs 6:8
How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower. — Isaac Watts
If a queen bee were crossed with a Friesian bull, would not the land flow with milk and honey? — Oliver St. John
If the [honey] bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would only have four years left to live. —
Attributed to Albert Einstein
If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive. — Dale Carnegie
I think it safest to base our assumption, that bee culture, in some respects is a hazardous business, even amongst the most thorough and careful. — A.I. Root, 1882
It is well known that improper diet makes one susceptible to disease. Now is it not reasonable to believe that extensive feeding of sugar to bees makes them more susceptible to American Foul Brood and other bee disease? It is known that American Foul Brood is more prevalent in the north than in the south. Why? Is it not because more sugar is fed to bees in the north while here in the south the bees can gather nectar most of the year which makes feeding sugar syrup unnecessary? — Jay Smith (Better Queens)
Like the honeybee, the sage should gather wisdom from many scriptures. — Bhagavad Gita
My son, eat thou honey, because it is good; and the honeycomb, which is sweet to thy taste. — Bible, Proverbs 24:13
Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind. — Friedrich Nietzsche
So work the honey bees -- creatures that by a rule in Nature, teach the art of order to a peopled kingdom. — Shakspeare.
So work with the honey bee, creatures that by a rule of nature, teach the art of order to mankind. — William Shakespeare
The bee is more honored than any other creature; not because she labors, but because she labors for others. — St. John Chrisostym, 4th century
The Creator intended the bee for the comfort of man, as truly as he did the horse or the cow. The honey bee was... created not merely with the ability to store up its delicious nectar for its own use, but with certain properties which fitted it to be domesticated, and to labor for man, and without which, he would no more have been able to subject it to his control, than to make a useful beast of burden of a lion or a tiger. — Rev. Lorenzo Lorraine Langstroth (1810 – 1895), apiarist, clergyman and teacher.
The Hive and the Honeybee, 1852
The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it. — Jacques Yves Cousteau
The only reason for being a bee that I know of is making honey. And the only reason for making honey is so I can eat it. — AA Milne in Winnie-the-Pooh
The pedigree of honey does not concern the bee; A clover, any time, to him is aristocracy. — Emily Dickinson
Tiggers don't like honey. — AA Milne in Winnie-the-Pooh
To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee. One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few. — Emily Dickinson
When one stands before a hive of bees one should say quite solemnly to oneself: “By way of the bee-hive the whole Cosmos enters man and makes him strong and able. — Rudolph Steiner, Lecture 1 on Bees, 1923
When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees. — Joseph Joubert
When you hear buzz around the beehive, you know they're making honey in there. — Terrence Howard
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