Bees Quotes - Page 25

• 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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• No Southern people ever seem to possess the energy of their Northern brothers, and in Sicily a dolce far niente life is much enjoyed. Time is no object. According to Pliny, Aristhomacus watched the life of the bee carefully for fifty-eight years, which is just the sort of work a Sicilian of to-day would like.

  Alec-Tweedie

  Brother, Eight, Years

  Mrs. Alec-Tweedie (Ethel) (1904). “Sunny Sicily: Its Rustics and Its Ruins”

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• A kiss! When all is said, what is a kiss? An oath of allegiance taken in closer proximity, a promise more precise, a seal on a confession, a rose-red dot upon the letter i in loving; a secret which elects the mouth for ear; an instant of eternity murmuring like a bee; balmy communion with a flavor of flowers; a fashion of inhaling each other's hearts, and of tasting, on the brink of the lips, each other's soul!

  Edmond Rostand

  Fashion, Flower, Taken

  Edmond Rostand (1899). “Cyrano de Bergerac”

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• When the flower opens, the bees will come.

  Kabir

  Flower

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• I like writing melody without an instrument. It's just so - it's more like the choreography of a bee; you just go.

  Tom Waits

  Writing, Instruments, Melody

  "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 31, 2011.

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• I want every day to be the most boring news day ever. I want every day to be about spelling bee champions and baby basketball. It's better to have no comedy material than a horrific news day.

  Tina Fey

  Basketball, Baby, Champion

  The BELIEVER Magazine Interview, www.believermag.com. November, 2003.

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• never forget this moment, the hum of the bee, the saffron threads of the flower, the drawn blinds, nature's assiduousness and human cruelty.

  Edna O'Brien

  Flower, Saffron, Never Forget

  Edna O'Brien (2007). “The Light of Evening”, p.81, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The life of spies is to know, not bee known.

  George Herbert

  Spy, Knows, Known

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.367

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• The little cannot bee great, unlesse he devoure many.
  [The little cannot be great unless he devour many.]

  George Herbert

  Littles

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• Rosanne Daryl Thomas's tale of her enchantment by bees is a delight to read. It also contains close observations of the natural world, tales of failure and triumph with the hives, and a stellar cast of characters that includes her daughter, their cats, the hapless Farmer Tom, Pete the crossing guard, and, most important, the Bee Master. Every word tastes sweet as honey.

  Janet Lembke

  Daughter, Sweet, Character

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• The air came laden with the fragrance it caught upon its way, and the bees, upborne upon its scented breath, hummed forth their drowsy satisfaction as they floated by.

  Charles Dickens

  Nature, Air, Way

  Charles Dickens (1868). “The Old Curiosity Shop: And Reprinted Pieces”, p.72

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• Crowds of bees are giddy with clover
  Crowds of grasshoppers skip at our feet,
  Crowds of larks at their matins hang over,
  Thanking the Lord for a life so sweet.

  Jean Ingelow

  Sweet, Feet, Larks

  Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.1

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• If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.
  This is regarded as probably NOT a quote by Einstein.

  Albert Einstein

  Men, Years, Faces

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• Fondnesse it were for any being free,
  To covet fetters, though they golden bee.

  Edmund Spenser

  Freedom, Being Free, Golden

  Edmund Spenser (1842). “Poetical Works ...: Miscellaneous poems”, p.326

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• We say
  This changes and that changes. Thus the constant
  Violets, doves, girls, bees and hyacinths
  Are inconstant objects of inconstant cause
  In a universe of inconstancy.

  Wallace Stevens

  Change, Girl, Violet

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.285, Vintage

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• Homo sapiens are the only mammals who intentionally hold Beard Of Bees competitions.

  Dana Gould

  Competition, Mammals, Beard

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• As a bee gathering nectar does not harm or disturb the color & fragrance of the flower; so do the wise move through the world.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wise, Flower, Moving

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• All music is rehash. There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme. Try to tell the kids in the Seventies who were screaming to the Bee Gees that their music was just The Beatles redone. There is nothing wrong with the Bee Gees.

  John Lennon

  Kids, Trying, Variation

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• As a bee without harming the flower, its colour or scent, flies away, collecting only the honey, even so should the sage wander in the village.

  Gautama Buddha

  Flower, Honey, Sage

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• On the first day of May the people of the crofter townland are up betimes and busy as bees about to swarm. This is the day of migrating, bho baile gu beinn (from townland to moorland), from the winter homestead to the summer sheiling. The summer of their joy is come, the summer of the sheiling, the song, the pipe and the dance, when the people ascend the hill to the clustered bothies, overlooking the distant sea from among the fronded ferns and fragrant heather, where neighbour meets neighbour, and lover meets lover.

  Alexander Carmichael

  Summer, Song, Winter

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• If we were bees, ants, or Lacedaemonian| warriors, to whom personal fear does not exist and cowardice is the most shameful thing in the world, warring would go on forever. But luckily we are only men — and cowards.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Warrior, Men, Forever

  Erwin Schrodinger (2012). “What is Life?: With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches”, p.102, Cambridge University Press

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• Tim Bee has demonstrated his toughness and his compassion, his ability to lead while at the same time listening to others. These are skills few people in public life have. We need Tim Bee working for us in Congress.

  Jim Kolbe

  Compassion, Listening To Others, Skills

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