The honey-bee that wanders all day long… Seeks not alone the rose’s glowing breast, The lily’s dainty cup, the violet’s lips, But from the rank and noxious weeds he sips The single drop of sweetness closely pressed Within the poison chalice.
Bee Quotes
My cousin just died. He was only 19. He got stung by a bee – the natural enemy of a tightrope walker.
If you want to gather honey, don’t kick over the beehive.
You know what happens in the beehive? They kill those drones.
‘Bee vomit,’ my brother said once, ‘that’s all honey is,’ so that I could not put my tongue to its jellied flame without tasting regurgitated blossoms.
In India we have a saying that the fly sits on the filth as well as the honey, but the bee seeks only the honey and avoids the filth.
Wiser far than human seer, yellow-breeched philosopher! Seeing only what is fair, Sipping only what is sweet. Thou dost mock at fate and care, Leave the chaff, and take the wheat.
The queen lives in Egyptian darkness and stately seclusion of the royal apartments, with none about her but plebeian servants, who give her empty lip-affection in place of the love which her heart hungers for; who spy upon her in the interest of her waiting heirs, and report and exaggerate her defects and deficiencies to […]
You passionate, Powdery Pastoral bandits, Who gave you your Roaming and Rollicking mandates? Come out of my Foxglove; come Out of my roses You bees with the Plushy and Plausible noses!
Hundreds of bees are drowned every day, and other hundreds are eaten by birds, and it is the queen’s business to keep the population up to standard.
