A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
Alexander Pope
Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
James Russell Lowell
In Tarzan I only had to worry about the bees.
Casper Van Dien
It was a great thing to be a human being. It was something tremendous. Suddenly I'm conscious of a million sensations buzzing in me like bees in a hive. Gentlemen, it was a great thing.
Karel Capek
It's wonderful to me that bees have this simple, age-old thing going on.
Peter Fonda
Let us turn elsewhere, to the wasps and bees, who unquestionably come first in the laying up of a heritage for their offspring.
Jean Henri Fabre
Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place - service - social service - the ants creed, the bees creed.
John Galsworthy
That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.
Marcus Aurelius
The bees learn where they live by landmarks. If they're moved within their home range, they get confused.
Gene Robinson
There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.
Henry David Thoreau
There is a number among us, young and old, of all sorts almost among us, that swarm up and down towns, and woods, and fields, whose care and work hitherto hath been like bees, only to get honey to their own hive.
Thomas Shepard
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 I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
Abraham Lincoln
When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.
Ramakrishna
When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
Joseph Joubert
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
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