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• 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.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Arrogance, Poetic

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• My father told me all about the birds and the bees, the liar - I went steady with a woodpecker till I was twenty one.

  Bob Hope

  Witty, Sex, Father

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• If there's a buzzing-noise, somebody's making a buzzing-noise, and the only reason for making a buzzing-noise that I know of is because you're a bee.

  A. A. Milne

  Noise, Reason, Knows

  A. A. Milne (2012). “Winnie-the-Pooh”, p.11, Egmont UK

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• For the poets tell us, don't they, that the melodies they bring us are gathered from rills that run with honey, out of glens and gardens of the Muses, and they bring them as bees do honey, flying like the bees? And what they say is true, for a poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never able to compose until he has become inspired, and is beside himself, and reason is no longer in him. So long as he has this in his possession, no man is able to make poetry or to chant in prophecy.

  Plato

  Inspirational, Running, Men

  Plato (1963). “The Collected Dialogues of Plato: Including The Letters”, Bollingen

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• The wild Bee reels from bough to bough
  With his furry coat and his gauzy wing,
  Now in a lily cup, and now
  Setting a jacinth bell a-swing,
  In his wandering.

  Oscar Wilde

  Swings, Lilies, Coats

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.849, Wordsworth Editions

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• The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved, in a tear of the sisters of Phaeton, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar. It has obtained a worthy reward for its great toils; we may suppose that the bee itself would have desired such a death.

  Martial

  Shining, Tears, Toil

  Martial (1871). “The Epigrams of Martial”, p.192

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• The Bee Gees no longer exist.

  Barry Gibb

  Bee Gees

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• The little bee returns with evening's gloom, To join her comrades in the braided hive, Where, housed beside their might honey-comb, They dream their polity shall long survive.

  Charles Tennyson Turner

  Dream, Long, Bees And Honey

  Charles Tennyson Turner, James Spedding (1880). “Collected Sonnets, Old and New”

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

  Robert Southey

  Wings, Sound, Restless

  Robert Southey (1829). “The poetical works of Robert Southey: complete in one volume”, p.115

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• In Tarzan I only had to worry about the bees

  Casper Van Dien

  Worry

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• Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place - service - social service - the ants creed, the bees creed.

  John Galsworthy

  Real, Struggle, Atheism

  John Galsworthy (2015). “The Forsyte Saga Complete Edition: The Forsyte Saga + A Modern Comedy + End of the Chapter + On Forsyte ‘Change (A Prequel to Forsyte Saga): Complete Nine Novels”, p.2298, e-artnow

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• His Labor is a Chant - His Idleness -a Tune - Oh, for a Bee's experience Of Clovers, and of Noon!

  Emily Dickinson

  Experience, Tunes, Noon

  Emily Dickinson, “Like Trains Of Cars On Tracks Of Plush”

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• The Bee Gees were always heavily influenced by black music. As a songwriter, it's never been difficult to pick up on the changing styles of music out there, and soul has always been my favourite genre.

  Robin Gibb

  Soul, Black, Style

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

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• O bees, sweet bees!" I said; "that nearest field Is shining white with fragrant immortelles Fly swiftly there and drain those honey wells.

  Helen Hunt Jackson

  Sweet, White, Shining

  Helen Hunt Jackson (1872). “Verses”, p.46

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• Give and Take...
  For to the bee a flower is a fountain if life
  And to the flower a bee is a messenger of love
  And to both, bee and flower,
  the giving and the receiving is a need and an ecstasy.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Life, Nature

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• But the rose leaves herself upon the brier, For winds to kiss and grateful bees to feed.

  John Keats

  Grateful, Kissing, Wind

  John Keats (1914*). “The complete poetical works and letters of John Keats”, p.142, Рипол Классик

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• What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Freedom, Bees And Honey, Honey Bee

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) (1928). “Marcus Aurelius Antoninus to Himself”

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• It takes a bee to get the honey out

  Arthur Guiterman

  Honey, Honey Bee

  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]

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

  Kin Hubbard

  Work, Buzz, Busy

  "The Modern Handbook of Humor". Book by Ralph Louis Woods, 1967.

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• The busy bee has no time for sorrow.

  William Blake

  Time, Sorrow, Busy

  William Blake, William Butler Yeats (2002). “Collected Poems”, p.166, Psychology Press

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• Though my verse but roam the air And murmur in the trees, You may discern a purpose there, As in music of the bees.

  Alfred Austin

  Air, Poetry, Tree

  Alfred Austin (1885). “At the Gate of the Convent: And Other Poems”

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• Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can't remember who we are or why we're here.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Writing, Stories, Who We Are

  FaceBook post by Sue Monk Kidd from Jan 22, 2014

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• Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Inspirational, Hope, Nature

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4655, Library of Alexandria

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• In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.

  Florence King

  Order, Snakes, Literature

  Florence King (1991). “Lump It Or Leave It”, p.22, Macmillan

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• Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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