the honey bee is sad and cross and wicked as a weasel and when she perches on you boss she leaves a little measle. archy (Archy, a cockroach, is unable to use the shift key on the typewriter for capitals and punctuation.)
Bee Quotes
One day when he was out walking, he came to an open place in the middle of the forest, and in the middle of this place was a large oak-tree, and, from the top of the tree, there came a loud buzzing-noise.
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.
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 […]
