“ It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about? ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
- 2.9K
“ Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway. ”
- Mary Kay Ash- Copy
- 1.7K
“ Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through. ”
- Jonathan Swift- Copy
- 2.3K
“ How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower. ”
- Isaac Watts- Copy
- 1.3K
“ It's not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy. The bee is praised. The mosquito is swatted. ”
- Mary O’Connor- Copy
- 94
“ The pedigree of honey Does not concern the bee; A clover, any time, to him Is aristocracy. ”
- Emily Dickinson- Copy
- 2.3K
“ Aerodynamically the bumble bee should not be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway. ”
- Mary Kay Ash- Copy
- 1.7K
“ That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees. ”
- Marcus Aurelius- Copy
- 2.5K
“ As the Silks walk around the Establishment and poke it with a stick flocks of multicolored anecdotes rise into the air on flapping wings, and, occasionally, a bee stings. ”
- John Leonard- Copy
- 3.2K
“ The air came laden with the fragrance it caught upon its way, and the bees, upborne upon its scented breath, hummed forth their drowsy satisfaction as they floated by. ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
- 1.2K
“ Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast. ”
- Jean de La Fontaine- Copy
- 1.5K
“ Love, in my bosom, like a bee, Doth suck his sweet; Now with his wings he plays with me, Now with his feet. ”
- Thomas Lodge- Copy
- 465
“ Bee to the blossom, moth to the flame; Each to his passion; what's in a name? ”
- Helen Hunt Jackson- Copy
- 2.2K
“ My father told me all about the birds and the bees, the liar - I went steady with a woodpecker till I was twenty-one. ”
- Bob Hope- Copy
- 2K
“ 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- Copy
- 3.2K
“ You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive. ”
- Jean Cocteau- Copy
- 3.1K
“ Burly, dozing humblebee, Where thou art is clime for me. Let them sail for Porto Rique, Far-off heats through seas to seek. I will follow thee alone, Thou animated torrid-zone! ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 1.5K
“ The solitary Bee Whose buzzing was the only sound of life, Flew there on restless wing, Seeking in vain one blossom where to fix. ”
- Robert Southey- Copy
- 43
“ Listen! O, listen! Here come the hum the golden bees Underneath full blossomed trees, At once with glowing fruit and flowers crowned. ”
- James Russell Lowell- Copy
- 311
“ His labor is a chant, His idleness a tune; Oh, for a bee's experience Of clovers and of noon! ”
- Emily Dickinson- Copy
- 933
“ The careful insect 'midst his works I view, Now from the flowers exhaust the fragrant dew, With golden treasures load his little thighs, And steer his distant journey through the skies. ”
- John Gay- Copy
- 621
“ 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- Copy
- 1.1K
“ Seeing only what is fair, Sipping only what is sweet,.... Leave the chaff, and take the wheat. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 1.7K
“ Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don't they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers. ”
- Ray Bradbury- Copy
- 3.3K
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