Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind. Votes: 4
James Russell LowellIt takes a bee 10,000,000 trips to collect enough nectar to make 1 pound of honey. Votes: 4
Sue Monk KiddWhen I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees. Votes: 4
Abraham LincolnIf the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live. Votes: 4
Maurice MaeterlinckBees are a good omen to Kings, for they signify an obsequious people. Votes: 3
Heinrich Cornelius AgrippaHomo sapiens are the only mammals who intentionally hold Beard Of Bees competitions. Votes: 3
Dana GouldFor where's the State beneath the Firmament, That doth excell the Bees for Government? Votes: 3
Guillaume de Salluste Du BartasNow it's the bee... Gees! Bees are now endangered species... Without them life won't be sweet! Votes: 3
Ana Claudia AntunesYou put his brain in a bird, the bird would fly backwards" -Secret Life of the Bees Votes: 3
Sue Monk KiddBut the rose leaves herself upon the brier, For winds to kiss and grateful bees to feed. Votes: 3
John KeatsNo shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds - November! Votes: 3
Thomas HoodI'm very proud of being a Bee Gee and am always aware that I'll be identified as a Bee Gee. Votes: 3
Robin GibbHandle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it. Votes: 1
John MuirThe bee's life is like a magic well: the more you draw from it, the more it fills with water Votes: 1
Karl von FrischI don't mind bees and think we are all the better for having them around. I like the taste of honey. Votes: 1
Henry RollinsMen circle like bees around honey, buzzing to communicate their sexual despair. Votes: 0
Carla H. KruegerMy banks they are furnish'd with bees, Whose murmur invites one to sleep. Votes: 0
William ShenstoneFor bees are captious folk / And quick to turn against the lubber's touch ... Votes: 0
Vita Sackville-WestI can do what you do, easy, BELIEVE ME Frontin' niggas give me hee-bee-gee-bees Votes: 0
Lauryn HillHoney bees are amazing creatures. I mean, think about it, do earwigs make chutney? Votes: 0
Eddie IzzardMelancholy held me hostage, and the bees built a hive of sadness in my soul. Votes: 0
Laurie Halse AndersonYou can attract more bees with a spoonful of sugar than a cupful of vinegar. Votes: 0
Saint Francis de SalesMy business is words. Words are like labels, or coins, or better, like swarming bees. Votes: 0
Anne SextonEven bees, the little almsmen of spring bowers, know there is richest juice in poison-flowers. Votes: 0
John KeatsImpatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others. Votes: 0
George EliotAs bees gather honey, so we collect what is sweetest out of all things and build... Votes: 0
Rainer Maria RilkePretty things will swarm you like that, like your heart was a hive of electric bees. Votes: 0
Katherine DunnHe is not worthy of the honey-comb, that shuns the hives because the bees have stings. Votes: 0
William ShakespeareWho would have thought the bees would have been the first alien force to invade America? Votes: 0
Stirling SilliphantThe early bees are assaulting and fumbling the flowers: They call it 'easing the Spring.' Votes: 0
Henry Reed... an opportunity to allow the bees in one's bonnet to buzz even more noisily than usual. Votes: 0
Hermann BondiSuch simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory. Votes: 0
Charles DarwinRumor is like bees; the more you fight them the more you don't get rid of them. Votes: 0
Josh BillingsThe world moves fast, and so do the bees. Can we find the stillness to see them~? Votes: 0
Hattie EllisPeople are not ants or bees. We do not reason or love or live or die collectively. Votes: 0
P. J. O'Rourke[On John Cleese:] He sometimes seems to swat at his own thoughts as if they were bees. Votes: 0
Penelope GilliattBirds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it; let's do it, let's fall in love. Votes: 0
Cole PorterI see the moon like a clipped piece of silver. Like gilded bees the stars cluster round her. Votes: 0
Oscar WildeI've found my missin' piece So grease my knees and fleece my bees I've found my missin' piece! Votes: 0
Shel SilversteinWhen I go hear a man speak, I like to hear him speak like he's fighting a swarm of bees. Votes: 0
Abraham LincolnThe best things in life are free, but you can keep them for the birds and bees; I want money. Votes: 0
John LennonThe bees can abide no drones amongst them; but as soon as they begin to be idle, they kill them. Votes: 0
PlatoWatch yourself all your life in a mirror and you'll see Death at work like bees in a glass hive. Votes: 0
Jean CocteauOh to be a pear tree â any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world! Votes: 0
Zora Neale HurstonIf a queen bee were crossed with a Friesian bull, would not the land flow with milk and honey? Votes: 1 Oliver St. John