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Bees And Honey Quotes

For so work the honey bees, creatures that by a rule in nature teach the act of order to a peopled kingdom.

For so work the honey bees, creatures that by a rule in nature teach the act of order to a peopled kingdom.

William Shakespeare
Order, Bees And Honey, Kingdoms
'Henry V' (1599) act 1, sc. 2, l. 187

The little bee returns with evening's gloom, To join her comrades in the braided hive, Where, housed beside their might honey-comb, They dream their polity shall long survive.

Charles Tennyson Turner
Dream, Long, Bees And Honey
Charles Tennyson Turner, James Spedding (1880). “Collected Sonnets, Old and New”

If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.

Maurice Maeterlinck
Men, Years, Bees And Honey

The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.

Henry David Thoreau
Animal, Bees And Honey, Sunbeams

The two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.

Jonathan Swift
Light, Two, Bees And Honey
The Battle of the Books (1704) See Matthew Arnold 27

And the only reason for making honey is so as I can eat it.

A. A. Milne
Bees And Honey, Reason, Honey Bee
A. A. Milne (2012). “Winnie-the-Pooh”, p.11, Egmont UK

Every saint has a bee in his halo.

E. V. Lucas
Halos, Saint, Bees And Honey

What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.

Marcus Aurelius
Freedom, Bees And Honey, Honey Bee
Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) (1928). “Marcus Aurelius Antoninus to Himself”

Every little thing wants to be loved.

Sue Monk Kidd
Love, Bees And Honey, Want
Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.92, Penguin

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