Hives Quotes

• What does not benefit the hive is no benefit to the bee.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Doe, Benefits, Bees

  Marcus Aurelius (2009). “Meditations”, p.43, Everyman's Library

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

  William Shakespeare

  Honey, Bees, Worthy

  William Shakespeare (1709). “The Works of Mr. William Shakespear: In Eight Volumes. Adorn'd with Cuts”

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• When was ever honey made with one bee in a hive?

  Thomas Hood

  Inspirational, Life, Teamwork

  Thomas Hood (1857). “The poetical works of Thomas Hood”, p.353

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• For so work the honey bees, creatures that by a rule in nature teach the act of order to a peopled kingdom.

  William Shakespeare

  Order, Bees And Honey, Kingdoms

  'Henry V' (1599) act 1, sc. 2, l. 187

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• Do not discount the psychic warmth of the hive.

  Chang-Rae Lee

  Psychics, Discounts, Warmth

  Chang-rae Lee (2014). “On Such a Full Sea: A Novel”, p.32, Penguin

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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 two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.

  Jonathan Swift

  Light, Two, Bees And Honey

  The Battle of the Books (1704) See Matthew Arnold 27

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• The beautiful laws of time and space, once dislocated by our inaptitude, are holes and dens. If the hive be disturbed by rash and stupid hands, instead of honey, it will yield us bees.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Stupid, Hands

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.218, Modern Library

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• To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.

  Emily Dickinson

  Tragedy, Literature, Bees

  Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.522, Harvard University Press

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• To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, -

  Emily Dickinson

  Bees, Pollination, Clovers

  Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.522, Harvard University Press

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• The revery alone will do
  If bees are few.

  Emily Dickinson

  Dream, Bees, Pollination

  Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.522, Harvard University Press

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• Bees work for man, and yet they never bruise
  Their Master's flower, but leave it having done,
  As fair as ever and as fit to use;
  So both the flower doth stay and honey run.

  George Herbert

  Running, Flower, Men

  George Herbert (1835). “The Works of George Herbert: Poems”, p.121

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• Life's too slippery for books, Clarice; anger appears as lust, lupus presents as hives.

  Thomas Harris

  Book, Lust, Slippery

  Thomas Harris (2009). “The Silence of the Lambs”, p.146, Macmillan

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• I will not doubt, though sorrows fall like rain, And troubles swarm like bees about a hive; I shall believe the heights for which I strive Are only reached by anguish and by pain; And though I groan and tremble with my crosses, I yet shall see, through my severest losses, The greater gain.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Faith, Pain, Fall

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.599, Delphi Classics

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• Pretty things will swarm you like that, like your heart was a hive of electric bees.

  Katherine Dunn

  Heart, Bees, Like You

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• There is nothing to be found in a beehive that is not submerged in a bee. And yet you can search a bee forever with cyclotron and fluoroscope, and you will never find the hive.

  Kevin Kelly

  Forever, Society, Bees

  Kevin Kelly (1995). “Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World”, p.13, Basic Books

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• I write almost entlirely on Macs, because: Windows gives me hives.

  Charles Stross

  Writing, Giving, Window

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• A village is a hive of glass, where nothing unobserved can pass.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Glasses, Society, Village

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• One never knows how much a family may grow; and when a hive is too full, and it is necessary to form a new swarm, each one thinks of carrying away his own honey.

  George Sand

  Thinking, May, Honey

  George Sand (1800). “The Haunted Pool: (La Mare Au Diable).”, p.38

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• Everyone should have two or three hives of bees. Bees are easier to keep than a dog or a cat. They are more interesting than gerbils.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Dog, Cat, Should Have

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• You are being trained to be a Queen, but you do not have to act like one until y ou get your own hive. Being a Queen will not overtax you as you will never be called upon to use your mind on any major matter. You will use the National Mind, their mind. It's very restful.

  Elizabeth Hawes

  Queens, Mind, Use

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• I hadn't been out to the hives before, so to start off she gave me a lesson in what she called 'bee yard etiquette'. She reminded me that the world was really one bee yard, and the same rules work fine in both places. Don't be afraid, as no life-loving bee wants to sting you. Still, don't be an idiot; wear long sleeves and pants. Don't swat. Don't even think about swatting. If you feel angry, whistle. Anger agitates while whistling melts a bee's temper. Act like you know what you're doing, even if you don't. Above all, send the bees love. Every little thing wants to be loved.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Thinking, Long, Bees

  Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.92, Penguin

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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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• 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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• I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made; Nine bean rows will I have there, a hive for the honey bee, And live alone in the bee-loud glade. And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings; There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet's wings.

  William Butler Yeats

  Peace, Morning, Wings

  "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" l. 1 (1893)

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