Bees Quotes - Page 4

The Bee Gees are a fly-by-night sort of group.

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

He is not worthy of the honey-comb, that shuns the hives because the bees have stings.

We all know about the habits of the ant, we know all about the habits of the bee, but we know nothing at all about the habits of the oyster. It seems almost certain that we have been choosing the wrong time for studying the oyster.

A bee is never as busy as it seems; it's just that it can't buzz any slower.

Reason is a bee, and exists only on what it makes; his usefulness takes the place of beauty.

Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur.

When a bee stings, she dies. She cannot sting and live. When men sting, their better selves die. Every sting kills a better instinct. Men must not turn bees and kill themselves in stinging others.

Every saint has a bee in his halo.

Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still.

The very serpents bite their tails; the bees forget to sting, For a language so celestial setteth up a wondering. And the touch of absent mindedness is more than any line, Since direction counts for nothing when the gods set up a sign.

People talk about mumblecore but I prefer bumblecore, hyper-realistic bee movies about how bees really are.

Melancholy held me hostage, and the bees built a hive of sadness in my soul.

I like Betsy Ross as a model, too, the quilting bee, sitting around with your friends making art, asking what they think, so that you get the benefit of everyone's opinions and so it's not just about you in your you-dom.

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.

No good sensible working bee listens to the advice of a bedbug on the subject of business.

You never can tell with bees.

You gotta imagine what's never been.

People, in general, would rather die than forgive. It's that hard.

The solitary Bee Whose buzzing was the only sound of life, Flew there on restless wing, Seeking in vain one blossom where to fix.

The bees in my stomach are dead and getting used to it.

No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, there can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.

I've said this over and over, but I'll say it a million more times - I'm concerned more about the death of a bee than I am about terrorism. Because we're losing hives and bees by the millions because of such strong pesticides.

Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement.

The genteel thing is the genteel thing any time, if as be that a gentleman bees in a concatenation accordingly.