Bees Quotes - Page 10

• Pray look upon the plants and birds, the ants, spiders, and bees, and you will see them all exerting their nature, and busy in their station. Pray, shall not a man act like a man?

  Marcus Aurelius

  Men, Bird, Spiders

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) (1887). “The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius”

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• 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 architect from the best of bees is this, that the architect raises his structure in imagination before he erects it in reality.

  Karl Marx

  Reality, Cells, Imagination

  Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.198, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Through the window I can see Rooks above the cherry-tree, Sparrows in the violet bed, Bramble-bush and bumble-bee, And old red bracken smoulders still Among boulders on the hill, Far too bright to seem quite dead. But old Death, who can't forget, Waits his time and watches yet, Waits and watches by the door.

  Robert Graves

  Doors, Tree, Waiting

  Robert Graves, Beryl Graves, Dunstan Ward (1999). “Complete poems”, Carcanet Pr

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• 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

  Eye, Writing, Light

  "Leviathan". Book by Thomas Hobbes. The Third Part, Chapter 43, 1651.

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• I can do what you do, easy, BELIEVE ME
  Frontin' niggas give me hee-bee-gee-bees

  Lauryn Hill

  Believe, Giving, Hip Hop

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• LIFE is a mosaic of pleasure and pain - grief is an interval between two moments of joy. Peace is the interlude between two wars. You have no rose without a thorn; the diligent picker will avoid the pricks and gather the flower. There is no bee without the sting; cleverness consists in gathering the honey nevertheless.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Pain, War, Grief

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• From Indian vultures to Chinese bees, Nature provides the 'natural services' that keep the economy going

  Tony Juniper

  Nature, Chinese, Environment

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• The 31th of May, I perceived in the same water more of those Animals, as also some that were somewhat bigger. And I imagine, that [ten hundred thousand] of these little Creatures do not equal an ordinary grain of Sand in bigness: And comparing them with a Cheese-mite (which may be seen to move with the naked eye) I make the proportion of one of these small Water-creatures to a Cheese-mite, to be like that of a Bee to a Horse: For, the circumference of one of these little Animals in water, is not so big as the thickness of a hair in a Cheese-mite.

  Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

  Horse, Moving, Eye

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• Behold, I am weary of my wisdom,
  like a bee that has gathered too much honey;
  I need hands outstretched to receive it.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Hands, Needs, Honey

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.81, Penguin

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• Keep out of Chancery. It's being ground to bits in a slow mill; it's being roasted at a slow fire; it's being stung to death by single bees; it's being drowned by drops; it's going mad by grains.

  Charles Dickens

  Death, Fire, Law

  Charles Dickens (1853). “Bleak house. [20 numbers in 19 monthly pts., orig. wrappers.].”, p.38

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• We gon' float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. AH! Rumble, young man rumble! AH!

  Drew Bundini Brown

  Butterfly, Men, Boxing

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• I see the moon like a clipped piece of silver. Like gilded bees the stars cluster round her.

  Oscar Wilde

  Stars, Science, Moon

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.665, GENERAL PRESS

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• Spelling bees? Spelling bees do not scare me. I competed in the National Spelling Bee twice, thank you very much. My dad competed in the National Spelling Bee. My aunt competed in the National Spelling Bee. My uncle WON the National Spelling Bee. If I can't spell it, I know someone who can. So just bring it on.

  Kristin Cashore

  Uncles, Dad, Fear

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• Others, again, give us the mere carcass of another man’s thoughts, but deprived of all their life and spirit, and this is to add murder to robbery. I have somewhere seen it observed, that we should make the same use of a book, as a bee does of a flower; she steals sweets from it, but does not injure it; and those sweets she herself improves and concocts into honey. But most plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, nor industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared from the hive.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Sweet, Flower, Book

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.232

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• So our student will flit like a busy bee through the entire garden of literature, light on every blossom, collect a little nectar from each, and carry it to his hive.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Garden, Light, Literature

  Desiderius Erasmus, William Watson Barker (2001). “The Adages of Erasmus”, p.33, University of Toronto Press

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• Fear is like a little garden spider that makes us jump back or the poor lost bee on the steering wheel that we blame for our automobile wreck. The problem in fear is our response - the way we treat animals or insects that frighten us. . . . Fear is also the universal scapegoat we blame when we take flight from intimacy or shrink up inside ourselves in a thousand little ways.

  Dan Millman

  Fear, Animal, Garden

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• Long ago Apollo called to Aristæus, youngest of the shepherds, Saying, "I will make you keeper of my bees." Golden were the hives, and golden was the honey; golden, too, the music, Where the honey-makers hummed among the trees.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Long Ago, Tree, Shepherds

  Henry Van Dyke (1927). “Chosen poems”

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• When the flower blossoms, the bee will come.

  Srikumar Rao

  Flower, Flower Blossom

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• Is there a polity better ordered, the offices better distributed, and more inviolably observed and maintained, than that of bees?

  Michel de Montaigne

  Office, Insects

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.477, 谷月社

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• The bee himself did not evade the schoolboy more than she evaded me, and even at this day I still stand somewhat bewildered, like the boy.

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Boys, Stills, Bewildered

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson (2000). “The Magnificent Activist: The Writings of Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823-1911)”

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• The family is an early expedient and in many ways irrational. If the race had developed a special sexless class to be nurses, pedagogues, and slaves, like the workers among ants and bees, then the family would have been unnecessary. Such a division of labor would doubtless have involved evils of its own, but it would have obviated some drags and vexations proper to the family.

  George Santayana

  Family, Race, Class

  George Santayana (1954). “The Life of Reason: Or, The Phases of Human Progress”, p.184, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Charity is a naked child, giving honey to a bee without wings.

  Francis Quarles

  Children, Wings, Giving

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.29

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• As the bee collecteth honey with great zest, so the fool collecteth wealth.

  Kabir

  Zest, Honey, Fool

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• Humility must always be doing its work like a bee making honey in the hive: without humility all will be lost.

  Teresa of Avila

  Humility, Honey, Lost

  St. Teresa of Avila (2013). “Interior Castle”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• The killer bees have gone, like rats deserting the Titanic.

  Geraldo Rivera

  Political, Gone, Politics

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