Bees Quotes - Page 21

• I saw a bee have a heart attack.

  Karl Pilkington

  Heart, Saws, Heart Attack

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• My epiglottis is full of bees!

  Jeremy Clarkson

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• Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save those snails.

  George Carlin

  Whales, Tree, Snail

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• The Secret Life of Bees proves that a family can be found where you least expect it-maybe not under your own roof, but in that magical place where you find love. The Secret Life of Bees is a gift, filled with hope!

  Luanne Rice

  Finding Love, Secret, Found

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• I should have caught the mistake on that spelling bee card. But as Mark Twain once said, `You should never trust a man who has only one way to spell a word'.

  Dan Quayle

  Mistake, Men, Should Have

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• In November I'll be releasing my new solo record, entitled 'Box Of Bees'. There's no music, it's just a box full of live bees. The deluxe edition comes with more bees.

  Thom Yorke

  Records, November, Boxes

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• The more learned and witty you bee, the more fit to act for Satan will you bee.

  John Cotton

  Witty, Satan, Fit

  "The powring ovt of the seven vials".

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• All the breath and the bloom of the year in the bag of one bee; All the wonder and wealth of the mine in the heart of one gem; In the core of one pearl all the shade and the shine of the sea; Breath and bloom, shade and shine,- wonder, wealth, and-how far above them- Truth, that's brighter than gem, Truth, that's purer than pearl,- Brightest truth, purest trust in the universe- all were for me In the kiss of one girl.

  Robert Browning

  Girl, Truth, Heart

  Robert Browning (2012). “Browning's Shorter Poems”, p.95, tredition

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• As the bee collects nectar and departs without injuring the flower, or its color or fragrance, so let the sage dwell on earth.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Flower, Color

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• Just as the bee takes the nectar and leaves without damaging the color or scent of the flowers, so should the sage act in a village.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Flower, Color

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• It's not enough to be able to spell "magnificence" in your bedroom. You have to be able to spell it at the microphone during the spelling bee.

  Cynthia Lewis

  Assessment, Intellectual, Intelligence

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• Take the time to smell the roses. Sooner or later, you'll inhale a bee and die.

  Christopher Titus

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Smell

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Sweet is every sound, Sweeter thy voice, but every sound is sweet; Myriads of rivulets hurrying thro' the lawn, The moans of doves in immemorial elms, And murmuring of innumerable bees.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Music, Sweet, Voice

  'The Princess' (1847) pt. 7, l. 203, song (added 1850)

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• The role of third parties is to sting like a bee, then die.

  Richard Hofstadter

  Party, Roles, Third Parties

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• I would have been a lot better off if I’d studied more when I was growing up, y’know. But you know where it all went wrong was the day they started the spelling bee. Because up until that day I was an idiot, but nobody else knew.

  Brian Regan

  Growing Up, Idiot, Spelling

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• ... indeed, what reason may not go to school to the wisdom of bees, ants, and spiders? What wise hand teacheth them to do what reason cannot teach us? Ruder heads stand amazed at those prodigious pieces of nature, whales, elephants, dromedaries, and camels; these, I confess, are the colossuses and majestick pieces of her hand; but in these narrow engines there is more curious mathematieks; and the civility of these little Citizens more neatly sets forth the wisdom of their Maker.

  Thomas Browne

  Wise, Nature, Hands

  "Sir Thomas Browne's Works: Including His Life and Correspondence".

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• We don't forget.... Our heads may be small, but they are as full of memories as the sky may sometimes be full of swarming bees, thousands and thousands of memories, of smells, of places, of little things that happened to us and which came back, unexpectedly, to remind us who we are.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Memories, Sky, Smell

  Alexander McCall Smith (1998). “The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency”

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• The best poems take long journeys. I like poetry best that journeys--while remaining in the human scale--to the other world, which may be a place as easily overlooked as a bee's wing

  Robert Bly

  Journey, Other Worlds, Wings

  Robert Bly (1986). “Selected poems”, Harper Perennial

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• Hebe's here, May is here!
  The air is fresh and sunny;
  And the miser-bees are busy
  Hoarding golden honey.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Air, Hoarding, May

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1882). “The Poems of Thomas Bailey Aldrich”

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• I've got miracle lyrical capability all in me / With the agility to escape a killer bee colony.

  Eminem

  Miracle, Agility, Killers

  Song: Tonite, Album: Infinite

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• How many men
  Have spent their blood in their dear country's service,
  Yet now pine under want; while selfish slaves,
  That even would cut their throats whom now they fawn on,
  Like deadly locusts, eat the honey up,
  Which those industrious bees so hardly toil'd for.

  Thomas Otway

  Country, Selfish, Cutting

  Thomas Otway, Roger Boyle Earl of Orrery (1703). “The Orphan, Or, The Unhappy-marriage: A Tragedy, as it is Acted at His Royal Highness the Duke's Theatre”, p.12

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• Diseases of the eye are to bee cured with the elbow.

  George Herbert

  Eye, Elbows, Disease

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.324

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• Every bees hony is sweet.

  George Herbert

  Sweet

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.345

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• Good is to bee sought out, and evill attended.

  George Herbert

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.320

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• Sinnes are not knowne till they bee acted.

  George Herbert

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.361

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