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It takes a bee to get the honey out

It takes a bee to get the honey out

Arthur Guiterman (1924). “A Poet's Proverbs: Being Mirthful, Sober, and Fanciful Epigrams on the Universe, with Certain Old Irish Proverbs, All in Rhymed Complets”, New York, E.P. Dutton [1924]

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 (1998). “The Passionate Observer: Writings from the World of Nature”, Chronicle Books Llc

About every two minutes a new wave of planes would be over. The motors seemed to grind rather than roar, and to have an angry pulsation like a bee buzzing in blind fury.

Ernie Pyle, David Nichols (1987). “Ernie's war: the best of Ernie Pyle's World War II dispatches”, Touchstone

The revery alone will do If bees are few.

Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.522, Harvard University Press

The greater the kindred is, the lesse the kindnesse must bee.

John Lyly, Frederick William Fairholt (1858). “The Dramatic Works of John Lilly, (the Euphuist.): Mydas. Mother Bombie. The woman in the moone. Love's metamorphosis. Notes”, p.103

For pitty, Sir, find out that Bee Which bore my Love away I'le seek him in your Bonnet brave, I'le seek him in your eyes.

Robert Herrick, Samuel Weber Singer (1856). “Hesperides: Or, The Works Both Humane and Divine of Robert Herrick ...”, p.254

Read like a butterfly, write like a bee.

Philip Pullman (2007). “The Amber Spyglass”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

I'm petrified of bees because I have an anaphylactic reaction to bees.

"Siberia – Joyce Giraud Exclusive Interview". Interview with Rebecca Murray, www.showbizjunkies.com. July 06, 2013.

Life is not so idiotically mathematical that only the big eat the small; it is just as common for a bee to kill a lion or at least to drive it mad.

Johan August Strindberg, Michael Robinson (2008). “Miss Julie and Other Plays”, p.57, Oxford University Press

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

The Battle of the Books (1704) See Matthew Arnold 27