Bee Quotes
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Women are very critical of each other. I think we need to be helpful to each other, and try not to have a Queen Bee Complex.
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More Bee Quotes
Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
muhammad ali— c.1964 Of his boxing style. Quoted in G Sullivan Cassius Clay (1964), ch.8.
If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search. ... I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety per cent of his labor.
nikola tesla— New York Times (19 October 1931)
So sweet, so sweet the roses in their blowing. So sweet the daffodils, so fair to see, so blithe and gay the humming-bird a-going from flower to flower, a-hunting with the bee.
nora perry— Nora Perry, In June.
Ring-ting! I wish I were a primrose, A bright yellow primrose blowing in the spring! The stooping boughs above me, The wandering bee to love me, The fern and moss to creep across, And the elm-tree for our king!
william allingham— William Allingham, Wishing, A Child's Song.
One can no more think like a baby than one can think like a bee.
lewis padgett— Rex Holloway, paraphrasing a statement in A High Wind in Jamaica : The Innocent Voyage (1932) by Richard Arthur Warren Hughes:
A spider conducts operations that resemble those of a weaver, and a bee puts to shame many an architect in the construction of her cells. But what distinguishes the worst of architects from the best of bees is this, that the architect raises his structure in imagination before he erects it in reality.
karl marx— Vol. I, Ch. 7, pg.198
There in close covert by some brook, Where no profaner eye may look, Hide me from day's garish eye, While the bee with honied thigh, That at her flowery work doth sing, And the waters murmuring And such consort as they keep, Entice the dewy-feathered Sleep.
john milton— c.1631 Il Penseroso, l.139-46.
The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
william blake— Line 11 (Proverbs of Hell)
Master Gascoigne is not to bee abridged of his deserved esteeme, who first beate the path to that perfection which our best Poets have aspired too since his departure.
george gascoigne— Thomas Nashe, Preface to Robert Greene's Menaphon (1589), cited from G. Gregory Smith (ed.) Elizabethan Critical Essays (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1904) vol. 1, p. 315.
The major cuts in federal and provincial transfers to social service agencies, health care, education, and social housing over the past several years have not bee matched by an explosion in private giving. Nor will they ever be.
bob rae— Chapter Five, The Second Question: Charity and Welfare-The Old Debate Is New Again,, p. 91
In February, if the days be clear,The waking bee, still drowsy on the wing,Will sense the opening of another yearAnd blunder out to seek another spring.
vita sackville-west— "Bee-Master", p. 40
The Sphinx, the Pyramids, the stone temples are, all of them, ultimately, as flimsy as London Bridge; our cities but tents set up in the cosmos. We pass. But what the bee knows, the wisdom that sustains our passing life — however much we deny or ignore it — that for ever remains.
p. l. travers— What the Bee Knows : Reflections on Myth, Symbol, and Story (1989)
Before the Second World War I believed in the perfectibility of social man; that a correct structure of society would produce goodwill; and that therefore you could remove all social ills by a reorganisation of society... but after the war I did not because I was unable to. I had discovered what one man could do to another... I must say that anyone who moved through those years without understanding that man produces evil as a bee produces honey must have been blind or wrong in the head.
william golding— "Fable", p. 87
Most impediments to scientific understanding are conceptual locks, not factual lacks. Most difficult to dislodge are those biases that escape our scrutiny because they seem so obviously, even ineluctably, just. We know ourselves best and tend to view other creatures as mirrors of our own constitution and social arrangements. ( Aristotle , and nearly two millennia of successors, designated the large bee that leads the swarm as a king.)
stephen jay gould— "Glow, Big Glowworm", p. 256
For it is not the bare Words, but the Scope of the writer that giveth true light, by which any writing is to bee interpreted; and they that insist upon single Texts, without considering the main Designe, can derive no thing from them clearly; but rather by casting atomes of Scripture, as dust before mens eyes, make everything more obscure than it is; an ordinary artifice of those who seek not the truth, but their own advantage.
thomas hobbes— The Third Part, Chapter 43, p. 331
A busy buzzing bee is a lot like me, it works and it lives in community.
dawud wharnsby— "A Busy Buzzing Bee"
When the hornet hangs in the holly hock, And the brown bee drones i' the rose, And the west is a red-streaked four-o'clock, And summer is near its close It's Oh, for the gate, and the locust lane; And dusk, and dew, and home again!
madison cawein— Madison Cawein, In the Lane.
O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap Of murky buildings: climb with me the steep, Nature's observatory whence the dell, In flowery slopes, its river's crystal swell, May seem a span; let me thy vigils keep 'Mongst boughs pavilion'd, where the deer's swift leap Startles the wild bee from the foxglove bell.
john keats— John Keats, Sonnet, O Solitude! If I Must With Thee Dwell.
The greater the kindred is, the lesse the kindnesse must bee.
john lyly— John Lyly, Mother Bombie, Act III, scene 1
It had need to bee A wylie mouse that should breed in the cats eare.
— Part II, chapter 5. (Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919))
I must say that anyone who moved through those years [World War II] without understanding that man produces evil as a bee produces honey must have been blind or wrong in the head.
— William Golding, "Fable", in The Hot Gates (1965), p. 87
How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower.
Isaac Watts— Isaac Watts, Against Idleness.
The bee doth leave her comb, in the dead carrion.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part II (1599), Act 4, scene 4.
I am a part of all you see In Nature: part of all you feel: I am the impact of the bee Upon the blossom; in the tree I am the sap that shall reveal The leaf, the bloom that flows and flutes Up from the darkness through its roots.
madison cawein— Madison Cawein, Penetralia
The bee enclosed and through the amber shown Seems buried in the juice which was his own.
Francis Bacon— IV, 32, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare "Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb", Francis Bacon, Historia Vitæ et Mortis; Sylva Sylvarum, Cent. i. experiment 100.
As busie as a bee.
john lyly— John Lyly, Euphues and his England, p. 252.
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— Robert Southey, Tkalaba, Book VI, Stanza 13.
